Author: ANDERSON, ALEX D.
Title: The Silver Country or the Great Southwest: A Review of the Mineral and Other Wealth, the Attractions and Material Development of the Former Kingdom of New Spain, Comprising Mexico and the Mexican Cessions to the United States in 1848 and 1853
Description: NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1877, First Edition. Embossed Brown Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: folded map. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired Colorado College Library copy with usual stamps, stickers and labels; Original flat-brown endpapers; Large upper corner tear, with loss, on rear end page, small, pea-sized irregular hole at center of ffep, else textblock is clean and tight; Scuffed and worn at head and foot of spine; Worn and frayed board corners and along the beveled edge; Tipped in at page 10, is a large, fragile, folded and partially colored, Hypsometric map which shows some railroad routes west of the Mississippi River which extend to the Pacific coast; Lacking, are any routes of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad which did not yet exist; The map has several closed edge tears, some separation along the folds, and edge creases; No, I will not unfold it to take a photo, as it is too fragile; 221p. Larned 1190. Very Good.

Keywords: Silver Country History, Mexico History, Mexico Mineral Wealth, Southwestern United States, Western United States, California, Nevada, Mexico, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Gold MInes, Silver Mines, Colorado, Silver, Gold, Toltecs, Aztecs folded map


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