[Nevada]. The Silver Mines of Nevada... a very nice example of a fragile production

[NEVADA]

THE SILVER MINES OF NEVADA. NEW YORK: WM. C. BRYANT, 1865

8vo. Folding map. Original printed cream wrappers. Rear wrapper with closed tears intersecting at center with some creasing, ink shelf number in upper right of front wrapper, internally unusually clean and unspotted with the fragile map being particularly so.

Scarce — a very nice example of a fragile production. Though preceded by another edition in 1864, both are unusually elusive. We can find only two copies of the present (both defective, each apparently lacking the map) and none of the 1864 edition at auction in 50 years. Both editions were offered in one lot at Parke-Bernet in 1953 (noting that the 1864 was printed on thicker paper, but that the maps and text were the same for both).

Goodspeed's offered a copy of the 1865 in 1968 (priced at $25) with the following note: "...the 'Map of the Washoe, Humboldt & Reese River Silver Mines in ... Nevada by E. W. Perry, New fork, 1865' is the same as that in the report of A. Blatchly et al, on "The Silver Districts of Nevada." N. Y., 1865 (Wagner-Camp 409), but that "the text differs entirely from the Blatchly pamphlet, & does not mention Blatchly or give his report." Among the reports of the mines contained here are Prof. Silliman's (as printed in the Reese River Reveille), a series of letters to the San Francisco News Letter & Mining Journal, extracts from a "log-book" describing the founding of Virginia City from Horace Greeley's articles for the New York Tribune, etc."

REFERENCE:

Wagner-Camp 409A