The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 11, March 18, 2007, Article 7

MINING LIBRARIES FOR SALE BY HOLABIRD-KAGIN AMERICANA

Holabird-Kagin Americana announced this week a fixed-price sale of 
three mining-related libraries. 

The press release notes: "The Mining History library has a solid western 
slant centering on California and Nevada. A number of rare works are 
present. These include: Myron Angel's History of Nevada, 1881 (an original 
in original binding); a very rare paper by Richthoben on the Comstock Lode, 
1866; Goodyear?s rare and famous 1877 treatise on Western Coal Mines, which 
is still the most important directory of western coal deposits; several of 
J. Ross Browne?s works on the Comstock and Arizona entitled Adventures in 
Apache Country (1869) and Crusoe's Island (1864). The latter contains a 
detailed description of the Comstock mines. Four different original Sutro 
Tunnel publications dating from the 1870's; two classic Mark Twain works 
in first edition: Roughing It (1872) and Stolen White Elephant (1882). 
Roughing It is the classic work about Sam Clemens' travels in Aurora, 
Unionville and Virginia City during the Territorial period. 

"[The Mineralogy] library is a classic, consisting of 1059 volumes. Among 
the highlights are the great rare Sowerby four volume set from 1806 
(British Minerals?) with crisp, clean, hand colored illustrations of 
minerals. This work in the quintessential mineralogical work, the 
foundation of mineralogy as we know it today. 

"The library contains a large stretch of the American Mineralogist as 
well as the popular Mineralogical Record. Of additional interest are 
at least 14 author signed works. A great deal of the library centers 
around minerals of the western United States, as might be expected from 
an extensive western mineral exploration library.

"[The Mineral Exploration] library consists of 1611 volumes, of which 
1309 are pure mineral exploration related publications and 302 volumes 
are mineral economics directly related to mineral exploration. The 
library centers around economic ore deposits of the western United 
States, principally Nevada, California and Arizona. Gold, silver and 
copper are the principal themes collected for serious research. 
Categorized by state, it contains nearly all of the critically 
important papers in geology and mining geology."

"A list of any and all volumes is available upon request. For more 
information contact Fred Holabird at Fred_home@holabirdamericana.com

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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