1886 Report on the Mining Industries of the United States

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Very Scarce

A very scarce first edition.

Illustrated with one-hundred and two plates, including a wealth of folding tables and charts, many of which are in colour, and with six folding colour maps in a pocket to the rear pastedown.

Collated, complete.

The first edition of this impressively illustrated and very scarce major governmental survey authored by Raphael Pumpelly, a prominent geologist and mining engineer.

This work details the extraction and economic significance of base and industrial minerals such as coal, iron, lead, zinc, and copper, offering detailed analysis of production methods, geological formations, labour conditions, and the technological state of the industry across different regions of the United States.

Rebound, with endpapers renewed.

Including special investigations into the iron resources of the United States and the Cretaceous coal deposits of the Northwest, aiming to assess their economic and industrial significance.