Old, R.O.:

$2,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

COLORADO: UNITED STATES, AMERICA. ITS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND MINING. INCLUDING A COMPREHENSIVE CATALOGUE OF NEARLY SIX HUNDRED SAMPLES OF ORES. A rare Colorado promotional pamphlet, issued by the British and Colorado Mining Bureau. The author's objective was to attract British capitalists and tourists to Colorado, so that "the splendid promise of her future" might blossom. Includes descriptive sections about Colorado counties, as well as advice on traveling from England to America, with a folding map of Colorado and an extensive catalogue of the mines operating at the time. The final leaf contains an abbreviated business directory of Denver, Central City, Black Hawk, and Georgetown. The preface is signed April 1869, and an advertisement on the verso of the titlepage encourages the use of the Union Pacific Railroad, which would join with the Central Pacific in late May 1869, described as the "shortest route to the Mines, Salt Lake, California, and all the Western States and Territories...." A second edition was issued in 1872. This title was issued in a cloth binding and in wrappers (as here). This is only the second copy in wrappers that we have handled.

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