![[Three Autograph Letters from a Gold Mining Engineer Working Near Oroville]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/327/493/1399493327.0.l.jpg)
[Three Autograph Letters from a Gold Mining Engineer Working Near Oroville]
by [California]. [Mining]
Oroville, Ca, 1900. Very good.. Three letters, [13]pp. total on seven lined sheets. Previously folded. Minor wear and toning. An engaging group of three letters from a mining engineer named Jack in Oroville, California, to his partner and perhaps brother Eric that discuss the development of their investments in an area that saw a rapid growth in dredge mining around the turn of the 20th century. Our correspondent was working out a new mechanical process for gold mining... Read More
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![Map of Part of Northern Ontario Showing the Northern Part of the District of Nipissing, Algoma and Thunder Bay [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/233/757/1175757233.0.l.jpg)
Map of Part of Northern Ontario Showing the Northern Part of the District of Nipissing, Algoma and Thunder Bay [caption title]
by [Canadian Mining]
[Toronto], 1907. Very good, in original condition.. Giant folding map, consisting of four separate sheets, the total measuring approximately 62 x 74 inches. Printed in black and light blue. A few short separations at folds. Light tanning, very occasional small patches of light staining and minor wear. A scarce and massive map of Ontario that depicts Canadian forest preserves, mining areas, and significant geographical features, with notes on land quality and natural resources, in the northern regions of... Read More
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![Map of Iron Ore Locations Near Sturgeon River East Side of Lake Nepigon [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/232/757/1175757232.0.l.jpg)
Map of Iron Ore Locations Near Sturgeon River East Side of Lake Nepigon [caption title]
by [Canadian Mining]
[Toronto, 1900. Very good.. Folding blueprint map, approximately 22 x 27 inches. Small perforation at lower right corner, not affecting map area. Unrecorded large blueprint map of iron ore deposits between the east shore of Lake Nipigon and the Sturgeon River in Ontario, northwest of Thunder Bay. The map shows rectangular plots of surveyed land, locations of ore deposits, and important geological and mineral features. Efforts to mine this area intensified at the turn of the 20th century,... Read More
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By-Laws of the Federal Union Mining Company, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Organized March 27, 1866. Capital Stock $100,000
by [Colorado]. [Mining]
Greenfield, [Ma.]: Franklin Job Printing Office, 1866. Near fine.. 11pp. Original printed wrappers, gilt lettered.Stitched, as issued. Very minor edge wear. An occasional faint fox mark. Uncommon by-laws of this relatively early Colorado mining venture organized by Massachusetts and Illinois investors. The text provides a list of company officers and rules for basic operations. OCLC locates a handful of copies; the present copy is a fine example.
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![[Engineers' Report and Two Blueprints for Silver Star Mine, Near Sun Valley, Idaho]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/756/427/1483427756.0.l.jpg)
[Engineers' Report and Two Blueprints for Silver Star Mine, Near Sun Valley, Idaho]
by [Idaho]. [Mining]
San Francisco, 1925. Very good.. 9pp., plus two blueprint maps, each 18 x 39 inches. Light soiling. Minor losses at fold points of blueprints. A detailed engineering report on assay sampling at the Silver Star Mine in Central Idaho, west of Sun Valley. The typed letter, dated November 16, 1925, reports disappointing results from the initial assay sampling of the mine area to investors in Philadelphia. The two blueprints depict cross sections of the mine where the sampling... Read More
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![[Large Archive of Correspondence Relating to the Operations of the La Lluvia Gold Mine in Sinaloa]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/042/991/1527991042.0.l.jpg)
[Large Archive of Correspondence Relating to the Operations of the La Lluvia Gold Mine in Sinaloa]
by [Mexico]. [Mining]
Mexico; Montana, 1926. About very good.. Approximately 200 documents and letters, totaling more than 250pp. Old folds, light wear and soiling, heavier to a few items. Significant archive of correspondence documenting the activities of the La Lluvia gold mine in Sinaloa, primarily consisting of correspondence from J.H. Pankey, the mine supervisor. The Mexican Revolution brought deep disruptions to foreign mining activity in Mexico, grinding activities to a near halt during the civil war there. In years following the... Read More
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![Don Matias de Galvez Teniente General de los Reales Exercitos de S.M. Virrey, Gobernador y Capitan General del Reyno de Nuevo España... Con el Importantisimo Objeto... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/984/476/1701476984.0.l.jpg)
Don Matias de Galvez Teniente General de los Reales Exercitos de S.M. Virrey, Gobernador y Capitan General del Reyno de Nuevo España... Con el Importantisimo Objeto... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Mexico]. [Mining]
Mexico City: January 15, 1784. Very good.. [3]pp. Folio on a folded sheet. Light soiling and wear. In 1783, Spain passed an expansive reform of mining laws in its colonial empire that centralized the industry under royal control. Amongst other measures, the new law created a guild of mine owners, the Real Cuerpo de Minería; a tribunal for resolving mining disputes and violations; a specific new bank for the mining interests and money only; and a privilege for... Read More
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Rectificaciones Importantes...Relativas á los Sucesos Acaecidos Entre los Accionistas de la Negociacion Minera del Refugio
by [Mexico]. [Mining]
Zacatecas: Tip. de N. de la Riva, 1873. Very good.. 39pp. Original printed wrappers. Light dust soiling and tanning. Occasional small fox marks. A lengthy refutation of claims made during a dispute over mining revenues in Zacatecas during the early 1870s. Remigio Zamora had published his and other shareholder complaints in a local newspaper, El Deber Patrio, and here the owners of the Refugio mine strike back. The argument naturally seems to center on whether shareholders were being... Read More
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![Map of the Golden Rule and Adjacent Mines, Eureka District Nevada. Drawn by T.J. Read Supt. Eureka Con. & Deputy U.S. Surveyor [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/234/966/1256966234.0.l.jpg)
Map of the Golden Rule and Adjacent Mines, Eureka District Nevada. Drawn by T.J. Read Supt. Eureka Con. & Deputy U.S. Surveyor [caption title]
by [Nevada]. [Mining]
New York: Empire Lithography, 1890. Very good.. Small sheet map, 8 x 15 inches. Printed in black and pink. Folded once vertically. Light tanning. Scarce map of the Golden Rule mining company, established via an amalgamation of mining claims in the Eureka District of Nevada in the mid-1880s. The map shows their consolidated claims shaded in pink, with the other claims in the area also delineated, and the topography of the region depicted by hachures. OCLC locates four... Read More
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![[Small Group of Materials Relating to the Lincoln Mine in Mina, Nevada]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/274/170/1257170274.0.l.jpg)
[Small Group of Materials Relating to the Lincoln Mine in Mina, Nevada]
by [Nevada]. [Mining]
[Mina, Nv, 1935. Good.. Three maps, two with duplicates, plus eleven original photographs. Maps folded, with light wear. Five photos loose, six affixed with chipped leaves with typed captions. Plus two folded claim notices in an envelope. Three maps of the Lincoln Mine, located near Mina, Nevada, and the Garfield Flat in Mineral County. The first shows the topography of the area with some areas shaded to indicate geologic deposits and the location of the mine. The second... Read More
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![[Group of Wasatch Utah Mining Ephemera]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/861/666/1317666861.0.l.jpg)
[Group of Wasatch Utah Mining Ephemera]
by [Utah]. [Mining]
[Salt Lake City, 1909. About very good.. Six sheets, varying sizes. Previously folded. Minor wear and light tanning. Scattered manuscript notations. A small group of ephemeral reports for two early 20th-century Utah mining companies, the Consolidated Jefferson Gold and Copper Mining Company, which was subsumed into the Wasatch Utah Mining Company at the end of 1908. Present here are the final annual report from 1908 for Consolidated Jefferson, a 1909 report to Wasatch shareholders concerning development and revenue... Read More
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Cartilla Elemental de Agricultura
by Miranda Prieto, Benito Ceferino
Havana: Establecimiento Tipografico de Barcina, 1850. Very good.. 173,[2, blank],10pp. Contemporary presentation binding of full orange calf, spine gilt extra, boards with elaborate gilt floral borders, stamped in gilt on front board, reading "Escmo. S.D. Francisco Armero y Penaranda." All edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned, boards a bit rubbed, light wear to extremities. Minor foxing to title page, occasional light thumb-soiling to margins. A decidedly-rare and informative primer on Cuban agriculture published in Havana in 1850. The author,... Read More
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![[Typed Letter, Signed, from Kate M. French, an American Baptist Missionary Working in India]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/838/431/1578431838.0.l.jpg)
[Typed Letter, Signed, from Kate M. French, an American Baptist Missionary Working in India]
by [Missionaries]. French, Kate M.
Queen's Hill, Kotagiri, Nilgiris, India: June 26, 1926. Very good.. [5]pp., typed on plain folio sheets. Old folds, minor wear. An informative and entertaining correspondence by Kate M. French, written while serving as a missionary teacher at the Preston Institute in Jangaon, India. Writing to "Friends at Home," French opens by reporting that the school year started well "except for two of the boys whose mother was ill with Plague" (the mother subsequently died). French also mentions students... Read More
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![[Collection of Real Photo Postcards, Photographs, and Printed Pictorial Postcards Relating to the Missionary Teaching Work of Lula Jackson, Featuring Subjects in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/588/392/1686392588.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Real Photo Postcards, Photographs, and Printed Pictorial Postcards Relating to the Missionary Teaching Work of Lula Jackson, Featuring Subjects in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico]
by [Missionaries]. Jackson, Lula
[Various locations in Guatemala and Mexico, 1923. Very good.. 145 real photo postcards, photographs, and printed pictorial postcards, thirty-eight with manuscript notes on verso. Minor wear overall. A wonderful collection of images featuring the people and places involved with the educational missionary work of Lula Maud Jackson (later Tolosa) of Birmingham, Michigan. Jackson was a Baptist missionary teacher at schools in El Salvador, Cuba, Mexico, and Guatemala before returning to Michigan in the early-1920s. Not long after her... Read More
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![[Typed Letter, Signed, from an American Missionary, Regarding Conversion of Chinese Muslims to Christianity]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/992/577/1695577992.0.l.jpg)
[Typed Letter, Signed, from an American Missionary, Regarding Conversion of Chinese Muslims to Christianity]
by [Missionaries]. [China Inland Mission]. Broomhall, Marshall
London: March 29, 1911. Very good.. [1]p. Previously folded. Contemporary manuscript annotation is left margin. Light toning. A brief but interesting letter, dated March 29, 1911, from Marshall Broomhall, Editorial Secretary of England's China Inland Mission, to the Rev. Arthur H. Smail, a prominent American Missionary in China. Broomhall had recently published a book, Islam in China, in which he promoted the use of Arabic-speaking missionaries to proselytize Chinese Muslims. The book used information received from Smail about... Read More
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, from a Missionary Working in Japan to a Donor Back in the States]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/511/877/1700877511.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from a Missionary Working in Japan to a Donor Back in the States]
by [Missionaries]
Okayama, 1925. Very good.. [15]pp. Old fold lines, minor wear. With original envelope. Lengthy letter written by Mrs. C. Burnell Olds to a friend and donor back in Connecticut, Mrs. Nathan S. Bronson. Okayama is located to the west of Osaka and Kyoto, in the southern portion of the country; Mrs. Olds was born to a missionary family stationed in Japan, and had worked in that country since 1903. In her letter, Olds relates her current round of... Read More
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![Tenrikyo Brazil Dendo Shi [History of Tenrikyo in Brazil]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/730/669/1602669730.0.l.jpg)
Tenrikyo Brazil Dendo Shi [History of Tenrikyo in Brazil]
by [Japanese in Brazil]. [Missionaries]
Sao Paulo: Tenrikyo Brazil Mission, 1958. Very good.. [52],16,[2],511pp., including [32]pp. of photographically-illustrated plates. Original orange cloth, gilt spine titles, housed in original cardboard slipcase with black spine lettering. Very minor wear, internally clean. Some chipping and toning to slipcase. An unrecorded history of the Japanese immigrant Tenrikyo Mission in Brazil, providing valuable information on many Tenrikyo churches across the country. Tenrikyo was a new Japanese religion founded in the 19th century in Japan by Nakayama Miki, and... Read More
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![Tenrikyo Hawai Dendo Shi [History of Tenrikyo in Hawaii]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/815/669/1602669815.0.l.jpg)
Tenrikyo Hawai Dendo Shi [History of Tenrikyo in Hawaii]
by [Japanese in Hawaii]. [Missionaries]
Honolulu: Tenrikyo Hawaii Mission, 1957. Very good.. 16,[32],365pp. including [32]pp. of photographically-illustrated plates, errata slip laid in. Original orange cloth, gilt spine titles, housed on the original cardboard slipcase with black spine lettering. Very minor wear to boards, internally clean. Small puncture and some wear to spine of slipcase. A rare history of the Tenrikyo Mission in Hawaii, beginning with the founding of its first church in Honolulu in 1929. Tenrikyo was a new Japanese religion founded in... Read More
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![The Replevin Law of 1861. Natchez Courier Extra...July 22, 1865 [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/028/173/1582173028.0.l.jpg)
The Replevin Law of 1861. Natchez Courier Extra...July 22, 1865 [caption title]
by [Reconstruction]. [Mississippi]
Natchez, Ms: July 22, 1865. Very good.. Broadside, 13.75 x 9.5 inches. Printed in three columns. Moderate toning and foxing, old folds, couple of small tears expertly repaired on verso, two tape remnants at top edge likely from previous matting. A very rare newspaper extra printing the first civilian law in Occupied Mississippi following the conclusion of the Civil War. After the war, only military justice was in force in Mississippi. According to an 1866 Mississippi court case:... Read More
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![[Archive of Correspondence Belonging to William H. Tabb, a Soldier in the Confederate 14th Mississippi]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/252/671/1739671252.0.l.jpg)
[Archive of Correspondence Belonging to William H. Tabb, a Soldier in the Confederate 14th Mississippi]
by [Civil War]. [Mississippi]
[Various locations, 1865. About very good.. Forty letters, approximately [96]pp. Many with original envelopes. Light wear and soiling, old folds. In a legible hand. Together with twelve additional family letters and two military commissions. A wonderful archive of correspondence written home from the Confederate lines by William Henry Tabb of the 14th Mississippi Infantry. William Henry Tabb (1837-1864) was the son of a minister at the Choctaw Agency in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. In April 1861, he was commissioned... Read More
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![Arkansas Via Iron Mountain Route [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/460/733/1264733460.0.l.jpg)
Arkansas Via Iron Mountain Route [cover title]
by [Arkansas]. [Missouri]
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1888. Very good.. Folded map brochure, 9 x 4 inches, unfolded to 36 x 23 inches. Minor wear and toning, minor separation at some folds. Contemporary ink stamp on cover. A large partially-colored map of Missouri and Arkansas issued by Rand McNally, including extensive information for immigrants in panels on the verso. The map depicts the entirety of Missouri and Arkansas, together with portions of bordering states, with the railroad lines printed in... Read More
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![[Group of Ten Small Mugshot Photographs or Studio Shots of Criminals in Kansas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/573/713/1617713573.0.l.jpg)
[Group of Ten Small Mugshot Photographs or Studio Shots of Criminals in Kansas]
by [Crime]. [Missouri]
[Kansas City, Mo, 1899. Very good.. Ten carte-de-visite photographs, 4 x 2.5 inches or slightly smaller, on thick cardboard mounts, four with partially-printed "rap sheets" on verso, completed in manuscript. Occasional edge and surface wear, as well as generally light dust-soiling. A nice group. A group of ten fabulous mugshot photographs or studio portraits featuring criminals in the last few years of the 1800s in Kansas City, Missouri. Four of the photographs are particularly interesting for the personal... Read More
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![[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/363/1440363029.0.l.jpg)
[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]
by [Missouri]. Turner, Ross Sterling
[St. Louis], 1891. Very good.. Watercolor, 7.25 x 10 inches. Matted and framed in an early walnut frame with gilt accents. Contemporary notation on verso of image, "H.P. Wicker" of Boston. Image lightly but evenly toned. A charming, impressionistic watercolor scene of paddlewheel steamers on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, painted in 1891. The foreground shows a long steam barge with a paddlewheel peeking up in the center. Several gangways connect the barge to the shore, with... Read More
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![[Letter Written by Jonathan Koiner to His Brother Absalom Regarding Travels in Iowa and Missouri in Search of Possible Emigration Destinations]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/241/047/1605047241.0.l.jpg)
[Letter Written by Jonathan Koiner to His Brother Absalom Regarding Travels in Iowa and Missouri in Search of Possible Emigration Destinations]
by [Travel]. [Missouri]
Flat Woods, Va: December 10, 1855. Very good.. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear. A detailed record of one man's travels upriver and overland to Missouri in search of a place to resettle. Jonathan Koiner (1820-1889) of Flatwoods, West Virginia, went on a western tour in 1855 to scout potential emigration destinations. He traveled with his brother, Absalom, who quite abruptly stepped off the steamboat in northern Iowa, leaving Jonathan to continue alone.... Read More
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Hannibal Directory of the Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company. January, 1912
by [Missouri]
Kansas City, Mo, 1912. About very good.. [48]pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Remnants of original paper label at top of front cover, some light wear and soiling. Errata slip town away at title page. Internally clean. Early telephone directory for Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain's hometown. The Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company was part of the Bell Telephone system and headquartered in Kansas City. The present directory contains [43]pp. of personal alphabetical listings, followed by a [4]pp. insert... Read More
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