Description:
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
THE SILVER COUNTRY OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST a review of the mineral and other wealth, the attractions and material development of the former kingdom of New Spain, comprising Mexico and the Mexican Cessions to the United States in 1848 and 1853 by Anderson, Alex D - 1877
by Anderson, Alex D
Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
THE SILVER COUNTRY OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST a review of the mineral and other wealth, the attractions and material development of the former kingdom of New Spain, comprising Mexico and the Mexican Cessions to the United States in 1848 and 1853
by Anderson, Alex D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth (map of New Spain on front cover). 221pp. Color folding map, "Hysometric Map of the Southwest, or New Spain with Lines of Railways West of the Mississippi River in Operation 1877 also The Ocean Warm Streams. "Boundary line of New Spain is marked. Map has some edge tears but is in vg condition. This copy has, on a preliminary blank sheet, a finely penned presentation "To Thomas Nickerson / With the Compliments of / The Citizens of Las Vegas / New Mexico / 1878" Nickerson was president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe RR, 1874-1880. The railway ran through Las Vegas between La Junta and Albuquerque. This copy has a later bookplate on the ffep, "From the library of James Torr. Harmer." This copy in vg condition, but we note the cloth is worn through at the tips and fraying / worn-through cloth at head & toe of spine. One owner penciled the full middle name of the author on the author line (it was Dwight!). Worthwhile association copy.
-
Bookseller
Independent bookstores
(US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication NY
- Date Published 1877
- Keywords Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, New Mexico, New Spain, Mexico, Las Vegas
We have 3 copies available starting at NZ$75.75.
The Silver Country or The Great Southwest - A Review of the Mineral and Other Wealth, the Attractions and Material Development of the Former Kingdom of New Spain, Comprising Mexico and the Mexican Cessions to the United States in 1848 and 1853.
by Anderson, Alex D
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$75.75
Show Details
Item Price
NZ$75.75
More Photos
The Silver Country or the Great Southwest: A Review of the Mineral and Other Wealth, the Attractions and Material Development of the Former Kingdom of New Spain, Comprising Mexico and the Mexican Cessions to the United States in 1848 and 1853
by Anderson, Alex D
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$120.22
Show Details
Description:
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. Retired Colorado College Library copy with usual stamps, stickers and labels; Original flat-brown endpapers; Large upper corner tear, with loss, on rear end page, small, pea-sized irregular hole at center of ffep, else textblock is clean and tight; Scuffed and worn at head and foot of spine; Worn and frayed board corners and along the beveled edge; Tipped in at page 10, is a large, fragile, folded and partially colored, Hypsometric map which shows some railroad routes west of the Mississippi River which extend to the Pacific coast; Lacking, are any routes of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad which did not yet exist; The map has several closed edge tears, some separation along the folds, and edge creases; No, I will not unfold it to take a photo, as it is too fragile; 221p. Larned 1190.. First Edition. Embossed Brown Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by folded map. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.
Item Price
NZ$120.22
The Silver Country or The Great Southwest - A Review of the Mineral and Other Wealth, the Attractions and Material Development of the Former Kingdom of New Spain, ...
by Anderson, Alex. D
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
TUCSON, Arizona, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$165.25
Show Details
Description:
New York: G.P . Putnam's Sons, 1877. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hard cover worn. 221 pp. Large folding map. The first general work on the whole of the southwest territory to be published following the war with Mexico, including discussion of mineral resources (silver and gold), agriculture and stockraising, topography and climate, scenery and tourist attractions, the foreign commerce of Mexico, and the advance of railways. Chapter V, pp. 139-187, contains an early bibliography of the region. "The Silver Country includes Mexico and her lost provinces, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Western Colorado.
Item Price
NZ$165.25