Reports upon the Mineral Resources of the United States.
Washington [D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1867. 360 pp. 8vo. Original brown pebbled cloth, ruled in blind, gilt titles. First edition. Spine with a few closed tears, worn at head, else a very good copy, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing on front endpapers, inch chip to lower inner margin of last three leaves, not affecting text. Sabin 8864. Item #40481
An authoritative account of the mineral resources of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains; later expanded. Most of the volume relates to the mines of California and Nevada. There are also two appendices important in their own right: Randolph's Address on the history of California, and Dwindle's Address on the acquisition of California by the United States.
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