Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WEST--NEVADA.) The Silver Mines of Nevada. Folding map. 77 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, rebacked with tape, otherwise minor wear; intermittent minor foxing, minor wear to map. New York: William C. Bryant, 1865
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An early promotional tract to encourage settlement of the new state of Nevada: "Her mountains of silver yield up their wealth at the touch of the enchanter." The map, "Map of the Washoe, Humboldt and Reese River Silver Mines" (7 x 16 3/4 inches) is described in Wheat, Transmississippi West V:1128 and page 156, where it is described as belonging another pamphlet. Howes N61; Wagner-Camp 422c (1864 first edition).