Fine Books & Manuscripts

FOSSETT, Frank. Colorado: Its Gold and Silver Mines, Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts. New York: C. G. Crawford, 1879. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, 540 in–text illustrations and numerous foldouts including bird’s–eye views, maps, and plans. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in black and gilt, brown coated endpapers (few tiny spots to upper cover). Provenance: contemporary gift inscription to front flyleaf (“Lizzie A. Smith/Compliments of Frank A. Uruland(?) November 1879”). The first revised edition of the 1876 publication of a well detailed and illustrated guide to Colorado. A BRIGHT COPY. Herd 827; see Howes F–281.