A further selection of items from a private collection.
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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.....
Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1885. 8vo. 344 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations in text, many full page. Publisher's decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION. Ingersoll's thirty-seven chapters traverse much of the Rockies, including the Sangre de Christo, San Luis Park, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Rio Grande, Royal Gorge, Arkansas Valley, Fremont's Pass.....
Boston: The Page Company, 1920. 8vo. xxiv, 478 pages. Folding map and 60 plates (including frontispiece), of which 12 are in color with tissue guards. Publisher's green decorated cloth, color image mounted on cover. Third impression (first impression was 1917). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the recto of.....
Helena, MT: State Publishing Co., 1917. 8vo. 152 pages. 24 duotone plates, including a portrait of Charles Marion Russell, and a three-plate facsimile of Russell's letter to "Kid" Price. Original green gilt-lettered cloth. FIRST EDITION of one of the finest Montana pioneer histories. Noyes settled in Big Hole Country in.....
Alamosa, CO: Alamosa Journal, 1925. 8vo. 83 pages. 8 duotone plates. Original printed wrappers, image mounted on cover. FIRST EDITION, with text on this Colorado region's geology, Native Americans, the Spanish, mountain men, highways and railroads, cattle, agriculture, mining, etc. Adams Herd 2131; Wynar 578.
