A further selection of items from a private collection.
London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). 217 pages. Oval bust portrait albumen photograph of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, mounted as frontispiece (mount foxed). Large folding map: "Map of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates forming the Sangre de Christo Grant Situate in San Luis.....
New York: Benjamin F. Corlies, 1858. 8vo. 10 pages. Original glazed-paper printed wrappers. Nine articles outline the structure of the company, which had formed in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company, and reincorporated under its new name in 1851. OCLC 4997635. Eberstadt catalogue 131, item 354.....
Greenfield: Franklin Job Printing Office, 1866. 12mo. 11 pages. Original blue printed wrappers. The first printing of the by-laws of this Massachusetts-based mining company, organized “for the purpose of mining gold and other ores” on the company’s property “on both sides of South Clear Creek, at Colona Bar, in the.....
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1895. 8vo. 282 pages, 6-pages advertisements at end. Frontispiece and illustrations in text; large folding map at end (a few soft creases along left folds, but without tears or separations). An excellent traveller's guide, including an index and vocabulary of Spanish and.....
