Search Results: Mining from Minotavros Books

Wilmington, DE: E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fourteenth edition. Orig. green cloth boards. 516 pp. B&W illustrations in text, one full-page colour illustration. Dupont Explosives Department presentation bookplate to front pastedown. Light rubbing to corners, else fine.

Toronto: H.M. Carruthers & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine. 7" x 10" Issue of December 19, 1936. Orig. printed paper wrappers, staple bound. 16 pp. Pamphlet is age toned, creased to corners, small chip to head of front cover.

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Western Lands and Waters Series II. Revised edition. Orig. russet cloth. xvi, 275 pp., 26 pp.] B&W photos, with 33 illustrations and maps. Lightly chafed to spine ends. Dust jacket lightly age toned, some bumping to extremities, light ink staining to rear cover.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full mustard yellow cloth. xiii, 470 pp. [28] pp. B&W photos. A few spots of foxing to top and tail edges of text block. Dust jacket sunned to flaps. Else fine. Robert Bothwell, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada's foremost historians, has told the Eldorado story with colour and drama. He has captured the excitement of frontier resource development in the 1930s and the intrigue of international politics in the 1940s and 1950s. Eldorado covers the company's history until 1960, when the crown corporation turned to the generation of electricity as the market for its products and services.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1957. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, 250pp. A small stain on bottom edge, light rubbing to extremities o/w very good in a good but soiled and d/w with tear to spine and extremities, inner flap clipped (text partially affected). Memoir of trapping and prospecting in Canada's Far North.

San Francisco: State of California Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 11" x 8.75" Oblong. Orig. tan cloth. 164 pp. Bumping to spine ends, a few scuffs to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Age toning to interior.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1877. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Translated and abridged from "Die Gesetzliche Regelung des Feingehaltes von Gold-und-Silber-Warren," by Mrs Brewer. Full dark red stamped publisher's cloth. xii, 13-140 pp., [16 pp. ads]. Folding map frontis. One chromolithographic plate with tissue guard showing samples of platinum, gold, silver, cinnabar, and scales of gold and platinum. Rubbing to extremities. Black stain to rear board. One signature nearly shaken loose at front. Some light foxing to frontis map. A few annotations and spots of underlining, but contents generally clean and neat.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xi, 306 pp. B&W illustrations. Fine. "A lively and engaging book on the ecology and human history of California gold." - Rachel D. Shaw, Journal of the West (from rear cover).

Sillary, QC: Septentrion, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Black paper boards. 206 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. French press release inserted. Dust jacket bumped to extremities, else fine.

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. brown cloth. 327 pp. [8] half-tone plates. Spine tilted, light chafing to extremities, small white scuff to top edge of front board.

London and New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Reprint, Fifth Printing. Original cloth boards with gilt symbol of American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to lower right corner on front cover. This is the second book in the A.I.M.E. Series. Presented to Ed L. Healy, a Junior A.I.M.E. member, from Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Fund with bookplate on front pastedown. xii, 419 p.p. Frontispiece of Winifield Scott Stratton discovering the Independance gold mine. Includes in-text illustrations of maps showing various mines and mining districts, as well as statistics. Light bruising to spine ends and slightly bumped tips. Interior clean, crisp. Some sporadic smudges, otherwise a near fine copy. This book on the history of mining covers its origins and early discoveries, ranging from gold, silver, and copper mining.

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. orange cloth. Map endpapers. xii, 427 pp. B&W photos in text. Spine tilted. Light rubbing to extremities. Damp stain to lower corner of text block. Dust jacket is edge worn, some chipping to spine ends and corners, short tear with some creasing to head of front cover, soiled to rear.

Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. brown cloth. 320 pp. B&W illustration. Minor chafing to extremities, else fine.

Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1910. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. DeLay, H.S.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. teal cloth, silver lettering and decoration. 343 pp., publisher's ads. Copiously illustrated. Spine tilted. Chafing to extremities, wear to corners, chipping and wear to spine foot, cloth damp stained to rear board. Damp staining to top and tail edges. Some offsetting of ink during printing, text slightly obscured. Interior age toned.

Don Mills, ON: The Northern Miner, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 132 pp. [4] pp. colour photos. B&W photos in text. Spine tilted, creasing to joints and spine, rubbing to covers. This respected reference on exploration, mining and metallurgy has been thoroughly revised and updated to explain in layman's terms how minerals are discovered, extracted, refined and marketed.

Toronto: Herbert H. Ball, 1934. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Province of Ontario Department of Mines Bulletin No. 93. Orig. blue wraps,staple bound. 27 pp. Small perforation to rear cover, minor creasing to corners, else fine.

New York: Margent Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo (medium). Original purple cloth. ix, 208 p.p. Frontispiece, plus eighteen photographs. Signed by the author on f.f.e.p. A collection of true stories about pioneer days, big business, and travel adventures from Lafayette Hatchett [1866-1955]. Hatchett was a manager at Boston Consolidated and Newhouse Mines and Smelters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Light sunning to boards and spine. Small perforation at upper spine along front joint. Rubbing to boards and edges. Corners slightly bumped. Writing in blue pencil on p. 139, not affecting text. Otherwise a very good copy.

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full navy leatherette. xiii, (734), 83 [bibliography], 12 pp [index]. Chapters are separately paginated. Dust jacket worn to extremities, a few short tears, sunning to spine, staining to rear.

Sydney, N.S.W.: V.C.N. Blight, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tenth edition. Orig. tan cloth, unlettered spine. 270 pp. Colour fold-out map in envelope at rear is lightly foxed. Spine cocked. Boards are edge worn and soiled. Some light sporadic foxing. Very good overall.

London: John Murray, 1828. Hardcover. Hardcover/No Jacket. 8vo. Third Edition. Contemporary half-calf, xii, 321pp. Rear board re-attached with archival tape, bookplate to pastedown, very light foxing, corners rounded and worn, some chipping to spine, otherwise a good copy. Francis Bond (1793-1875) accounts of his journey "across the great plains of the Pampas to the Gold Mines of San Luis, and from then to the Silver Mines of Uspallata.