From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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64pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Text lightly tanned and creased, blue pencil mark on margin of p.54. Very good. 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 joint 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. WYNAR 3313. HOWES O58, "aa." GRAFF 3084. SABIN 57110. BRADFORD 4076. LINGENFELTER CO:2345. Seller Inventory # WRCAM58971
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Title: COLORADO: UNITED STATES, AMERICA. ITS ...
Publisher: British and Colorado Mining Bureau, London
Publication Date: 1869
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