SoldHoratio C. Burchard

Report of the Director of the Mint

Upon The Production of the Precious Metals in the United States During the Calendar Year 1883

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. 9.25 inches, Octavo. Black cloth hardcover, gilt title to spine. 858 pages. Illustrated throughout with maps and statistical tables. Original publisher's "With the Compliments of Horatio C. Burchard, Director of the Mint" slip bound in before the title page. Detailed surveys of American gold and silver mining during 1883. Sections on Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington Territory, and the Appalachian range, with detailed, mine-by-mine reporting throughout. Published during the active years of the Carson City Mint, whose "CC"-marked coins are highly sought by numismatists today. Includes essays on California mining.

Good. Cloth worn; frayed at edges and spine tips. Spine gilt tarnished. Light, even foxing throughout. Text unmarked. Binding generally square and solid.

Primary source for the history of Western American mining and the late Comstock era.