[Rarebooks] FS: The resources of Arizona, w/ "new" folding map. SF: 1884

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Hamilton, Patrick. THE RESOURCES OF ARIZONA, Its Mineral, Farming, Grazing and Timber Lands... Indian Tribes, Pioneer Days, Etc., Etc. Third Edition. Revised and Enlarged, with New Map and Illustrations. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co. 1884. 414,(4)pp. Plus 14 pages of Arizona business ads at back. With a fine folding map and 19 lithograph plates. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Uncle Frank, with Kind Regards of Arthur Macy."    $200.00 (trade discount allowed)
Arthur Macy was a very prominent mining engineer in California, Colorado and Arizona. He became the Superintendent of the Silver King Mines in Arizona. It was called "one of the great mines of the world." Macy is mentioned in the text (p. 204). See Howes: The Final Edition H134. The 1884 edition has a greatly expanded text, and is the first with the folding map.

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