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Color lithographic map of mining claims near Butte, Montana, measuring 37" x 49" when opened. Map is glued onto linen and bound in red cloth hardcover with gilt text. Binding with moderate wear to extremities with some material loss and closed tears. Maps has light edge wear, as well as multiple closed tears at creases (stabilized by linen backing), and faint stain on verso along one fold. One set of claims -- for the Blue Bird silver mine, discovered in 1881 -- marked in orange crayon. Butte was known as "The Richest Hill on Earth" for mines that made fortunes for Copper Kings Marcus Daly, W... View More...
Large folio (76 x 61 cm), pp. 6 plus 9 plates of color and black and white maps. Cream staple-bound wraps with blue spine tape. Rubbing and light creasing to wraps. Plates unfold to twice the size of the folio. Includes paleo-geologic descriptions of each region of the continental United States, references cited and index to localities and sources. First Edition. View More...
Large folio (55 x 47 cm), pp. 19 plus 12 plates of charts, color maps and black and white photos. Light brown staple-bound wraps with black spine tape. S.J. Kubel, chief engraver. Rubbing to wraps and creasing to pages. Catalog writing on front wrap. Tape is lifting at edges. Shows and discusses detailed aspects of geologic, topographic and mineral properties found in the Silver City quadrangle in New Mexico. View More...
Folio (40 cm), pp. 38. Black cloth with burgundy quarter leather. Colored, engraved maps of each Township (as well as the entire County and the State of Michigan) showing ownership of each plot of land greater than 20 acres. Each township has an accompanying chart of names of farmers, acreage owned, and notes on crops and livestock raised. These pages also have numerous advertisements for local businesses. At the top of each Township map, in neat pencil handwriting, is the name of the Township Supervisor in 1927. Boards are partly detached, with edge wear and rubbing, and pages show heavy so... View More...
