Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 290

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(WEST--NEW MEXICO.) Brand Book of the Territory of New Mexico. [2], 356 pages. Tall 8vo, publisher's pebbled gilt cloth wrappers, backstrip ends a bit chipped, otherwise minimal wear; title page partly detached, lacking rear flyleaf, other minor wear to contents, section on Grant County heavily annotated with "Grant County N.M." inscribed on fore-edge; signed on flyleaf. Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Printing Co., 1900
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The first comprehensive New Mexico brand book, issued by the Cattle Sanitary Board in East Las Vegas, NM on 1 July 1900. It covers "cattle, horses, mules and asses" and contains thousands of illustrated entries. This copy was presented to official Burrage Y. McKeys of Deming (then part of Grant County) in southwestern New Mexico.

Not seen by Adams for Rampaging Herd, although the book's three later supplements are listed (1667-1669). One in OCLC (at the Huntington Library) and no other examples traced at auction.