Lot 150
E. Ingersoll, Gold Fields of the Klondike. (Philadelphia 1897).
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
150
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Ernest Ingersoll
Ingersoll, Ernest: Gold fields of the Klondike and the wonders of Alaska. Carefully prepared. With an introduction by Henry W. Elliott. (New York): Edgewood Publishing Company (1897). 19,3 x 13,3 cm. With 32 plates containing photographic illustrations, 1 leaf, 512 pages. Original linen
(Slightly scuffed and dented. Tanned and with some moisture stains.)
One of the earliest and most eloquent accounts of the Gold Rush. Contains reports on the arrival of the gold ships in San Francisco and Seattle in July 1897, on the first Klondike kings, as well as notes on the placer deposits on the Yukon, on routes, equipment, mining camps and gold mines in Alaska, and descriptions of marketing, smelting and instructions on how to analyse gold correctly.
(Slightly scuffed and dented. Tanned and with some moisture stains.)
One of the earliest and most eloquent accounts of the Gold Rush. Contains reports on the arrival of the gold ships in San Francisco and Seattle in July 1897, on the first Klondike kings, as well as notes on the placer deposits on the Yukon, on routes, equipment, mining camps and gold mines in Alaska, and descriptions of marketing, smelting and instructions on how to analyse gold correctly.