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Author: Emmons, Samuel Franklin
Title: Atlas to Accompany a Monograph on the Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado [with] Geology of the Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:United States Geological Survey/Government Printing Office
Date Published: 1883-1886
Description: With 32 lithographed maps, sections & profiles, most in color, 12 double-page. Atlas unbound. With volume: xxix, 770 pp. Illustrations from photographs, heliotypes and lithographs, several dual-page. (4to) early half morocco. First Edition.Important geologic atlas of the Leadville mining district with sections showing the numerous mines. Key is the representation of recently-discovered silver-lead deposits; the formations and rocks are both systematically grouped and identified by their local names. Issued by the United States Geological Survey; the maps are lithographed by Julius Bien & Co., New York. The atlas is additionally scarce unbound. Includes the text volume published three years later to supplement the atlas volume. The text volume is ex Library Harvard Geology Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, with numerous markings, but not, it seems, to the plates.

Atlas wrappers worn and chipping, overall edgewear to plates, some pinholes and tears affecting images; volume leather scuffed but binding still sound and interior quite clean; very good atlas and volume.