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CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1878 - Bodie & Esmeralda Mining District Revival Booklet

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CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1878 - Bodie & Esmeralda Mining District Revival Booklet
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Account of the Important Revival of Mining Interests in Bodie and Esmeralda Districts, by Wasson, Jos. Published by Spaulding, Barto & Co., Steam Book and Job Printers, "Mining and Scientific Press" Office, 414 Clay St., S.F., 1978. Measures 4 1/2" x 7", includes hard cover (there appear to be waterspots on both the front and back of cover). Soft cover, 60 pages, includes illustrations, advertisements, table of contents, and maps of Aurora and Bodie areas. On inside cover: "For Sale At Beach's Book Store, No. 5 Montgomery St., San Francisco." This resource, cited by Gudde in California Gold Camps, includes the "Gist of the Reports of Profs. Benj. Silliman and Wm. P. Blake, the late J. Ross Browne, and State Mineralogists R.H. Stretch and H.R. Whitehill - Also, Detailed Descriptions of Mines Most Developed, Tunnels, Mills, etc. - Also, General Resources of Mono and Esmeralda Counties - With Maps and Illustrations."