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Sale 350: Fine Americana with Maps & Atlases (#350) 03/01/2007 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #119Mining in the Pacific Northwest

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$875

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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Sale 350: Fine Americana with Maps & Atlases (#350) 03/01/2007 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Description

Title:

Mining in the Pacific Northwest

Author:

Hodges. L.K. (ed.)

Place Published:

Seattle

Publisher:

The Post Intelligencer

Date Published:

1897

Description:

i-[xvi], 192, xvii-lvi pp. Illustrated with 28 maps, many folding, and 1 other full page illustration of a chemical blowpipe. 8½x5½, original printed wrappers. First Edition.

Printed on fragile newsprint, this volume has become exceedingly difficult to obtain in this original edition with few copies surviving intact. Includes descriptions of the mining camps of Washington and Lower British Columbia.

Condition:

Front cover reattached with archival tape, backstrip deteriorated, corners chipped on front cover, some light edge wear; diagonal tear on frontispiece map; overall very good.

Item#:

179864

Headline:

Hodges' Mining in the Pacific Northwest 1897
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