MAP OF THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING WITH FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES... by Scott, Samuel - 1897

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

[Dakotas][Mining] Samuel Scott. Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. With full descriptions of mineral resources, etc. [Philadelphia]: E.P. Noll & Co. Map Publishers. 1897. Red card stock wraps. 19 cm. Folding map 75 x 70 cm. 40 [1] pp. Cover title: Rocks, minerals, and other resources of the golden Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Staples rusty, a few small water spots to cover and bleed into a few pages and one panel of the map.
OCLC shows 29 holdings. Howes S239; Eberstadt 132-259. Forty page description of mineral resources and appendix. The uncolored edition of the map, which shows topographic features and various towns, including Deadwood, Sturgis, and Custer City. Untitled inset map of the Deadwood vicinity. This pamphlet is "the first book on descriptive mineralogy of the Black Hills ... today highly sought after as a Black Hills mining relic." – Loomis.

Custer City, S.D. (pamphlet) and Philadelphia (map), 1897.. [2],40pp. plus folding map, 29 x 31 inches. Pamphlet and map in original red pocket folder with printed cover. Water damage to folder, with minor bleeding to inner margin of pamphlet and one panel of map. Else very good. Cover title: ROCKS, MINERALS, AND OTHER RESOURCES OF THE GOLDEN BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING. Uncolored edition of Samuel Scott's large map of the Black Hills region, showing topographic features and various towns, including Deadwood, Sturgis, and Custer City. "For legibility, and for tracing streams to their sources, this is still a useful map of the Hills" - Jennewein. The accompanying pamphlet, sometimes referred to by the cover title, is "the first book on descriptive mineralogy of the Black Hills...today highly sought after as a Black Hills mining relic" (Loomis). HOWES S239. EBERSTADT 132:259. JENNEWEIN, BLACK HILLS BOOKTRAILS 229 (colored ed). Thomas A. Loomis, "Black Hills Pegmatites" in DAKOTA MATRIX… Read More

Custer City, S.D., 1897.. [2],40pp. plus folding colored map. Original cloth, gilt. Minor wear along fore-edge and bottom edge. Binding cracked before the titlepage, a few tiny separations at the cross-folds of the map. Else a nice copy. Colored edition of Samuel Scott's large map of the Black Hills region, showing topographic features and various towns, including Deadwood, Sturgis, and Custer City. "For legibility, and for tracing streams to their sources, this is still a useful map of the Hills" - Jennewein. The accompanying pamphlet, sometimes referred to by the cover title, is "the first book on descriptive mineralogy of the Black Hills...today highly sought after as a Black Hills mining relic" (Loomis). HOWES S239, "aa." EBERSTADT 132:259. JENNEWEIN 229 (colored ed). Thomas A. Loomis, "Black Hills Pegmatites" in DAKOTA MATRIX MINERALS, Vol. 10, No. 3.