map mining claims comstock lode de lasalle edward (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 12mo. Compiled and drawn by Edward B. Lasalle, Topographical Engineer & Draughtsman, June, 1875. With a folded sheet tipped onto the front pastedown, printing a four-page List of Mining Claims, July, 1875; and folded color lithographic map (measuring 34 ½" x 18 ½" unfolded). Folded in the original publisher's pebbled cloth stamped in gold on front cover: "Lasalle's Pocket Map of the Comstock Lode. July, 1875." The map is lightly toned at the folds, slight splitting and a few small Japan paper mends at a few corner folds, one corner on back cover neatly refurbished, very good or better overall. A remarkable, scarce map of the Comstock Lode silver strike: the richest lode of silver ore discovered in the United States, located in Virginia City, Nevada (then western Utah Territory), on Mount Davidson in the Virginia range. After the discovery was made public in 1859, it sparked a silver rush of prospectors to the area, and Virginia City swelled to over twenty thousand people with miners from Ireland, Wales, Germany, Mexico and China who worked the veins. An attractive, bright copy in the original binding.