Author: New Granada Mineral Land Company
Title: The Charter and by-Laws of the New Granada Mineral Land Company, Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, April 3, 1856: Charter Perpetual
Description: Philadelphia, Printed by C. Sherman & Son, 1856. First edition. Original beige wrappers, stitched. [1-5] 6-51 [1 blank] pp. Illus. with 1 [of 2] plates, the folding map. 8vo. Geological report by J. King Merritt, First annual report of the president, for 1855, and a chromolithograph map depicting planer and longitudinal views of the Santiago River "Falls of the Santiago River Mineral de Verguas." This report confidently states: "I most heartily congratulate the shareholders in possessing properties, that I do most honestly believe will produce more in the aggregate than California has ever yet produced" (p. 51). OCLC locates three copies: LCP, Berkeley, and Hagley [w/o plates]. Overall good; map detached but otherwise fine.

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