The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine With an Account of the Land Claims Involving the Mine and Its Role in California History by Johnson, Kenneth M - 1963

Georgetown, California:: Talisman Press, 1963.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth, paper spine label; the spine is very slightly skewed, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped.. 4to (11.25 inches tall) . Notes, bibliography, index. map endpapers. Description: This book was designed and printed at the Talisman Press, and limited to 750 copies. Handsomely illustrated with historic photographs printed in sepia tones, on a soft, creamy paper. The chapter headpiece illustrations are printed in reddish-rust tones. The New Almaden mine in Santa Clara County, California was one of the greatest producers of quicksilver the world has seen. Chapters on the early history of the mine, the extended litigations as the mine was the subject of one of the most bitterly fought land claims in California history. Covers the argument of the case before the Supreme Court, the period at the mine during the Civil War, and later events… Read More

Pages 115 pp.4to. Cloth. First edition limited to 750 copies. Illustrated throughout. Lacks dust jacket.