Orton, James, A.M.

Underground treasures: how and where to find them. A key for the ready determination of all the useful minerals within United States ... A new edition with an appendix on ore deposits

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., [1908]. 16mo, pp. [14], 10-211, [1], 16 (ads); original brick-red cloth; gilt tilting on upper cover and spine; wood-engraved frontispiece, chromolithographic vignette title page showing a golden nugget from California; near fine. A popular book which went through many editions. Contains a 1901 note from the publisher stating that "This little work was not written for the mineralogists, but expressly for the landholder, the farmer, the mechanic, the miner, the laborer, even the most unscientific." Item #58463

Price: $100.00