Title: History of the Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada... Author: [Wright, William] De Quille, Dan, pseud. Place: Hartford, Conn. Publisher: American Publishing Company Date: 1876 Description: 569 pp. Double frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved plates from photographs by John S. Noe, E. Hurd & others. (8vo), original gray cloth with elaborate gilt spine and cover titles, decorations in black. First Edition, First Issue. Wright served as an editor on the renowned Territorial Enterprise from 1862 until its suspension in 1893. Howes says the book the "most interesting chronicle of `flush times' in Nevada following the `silver strike'...." Howes W710; Paher 2220. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to cloth with rubbing to extremities, small red area of discoloration on front board, leaning a bit; owner's name stamped in black on front endpapers and front blank page, rear hinge starting; very good. Item number: 280014
Title: History of the Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada... Author: [Wright, William] De Quille, Dan, pseud. Place: Hartford, Conn. Publisher: American Publishing Company Date: 1876 Description: 569 pp. Double frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved plates from photographs by John S. Noe, E. Hurd & others. (8vo), original gray cloth with elaborate gilt spine and cover titles, decorations in black. First Edition, First Issue. Wright served as an editor on the renowned Territorial Enterprise from 1862 until its suspension in 1893. Howes says the book the "most interesting chronicle of `flush times' in Nevada following the `silver strike'...." Howes W710; Paher 2220. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to cloth with rubbing to extremities, small red area of discoloration on front board, leaning a bit; owner's name stamped in black on front endpapers and front blank page, rear hinge starting; very good. Item number: 280014
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