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Hinton's Hand-Book to Arizona, 1878 First Edition, Rare! [141559]

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Hinton's Hand-Book to Arizona, 1878 First Edition, Rare! [141559]
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The Hand-Book to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins and Scenery. AMPLY ILLUSTRATED. Accompanied with a New Map of the Territory* by Richard J. Hinton. Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco. American News Co., New York. FIRST EDITION. * This copy is missing the map. 431 pages plus 101 page Appendix in the back: 43 pages of period advertisements, appendix, illustrations, charts, 21 lithographed plates & 4 lithographed maps & plans, two of them folding; inserted advertisement for Britton & Rey, who lithographed the plates and maps. A comprehensive and well illustrated guide to Arizona Territory packed with information for "the general public, and especially to the intending prospector, emigrant, traveler, and tourist". Great ad page leaf in back. Table of Contents in front. List of mines with detail on page 158, 164-167. Tables in Appendix with goldmine of information and tables on gold and minerals. This little book contains a treasure trove of information. Original covers are badly damaged. Book sustained water damage and stains are visible, but pages are all dry and moisture stains barely visible, not much waviness. Discoloration, but still good condition inside. Please see photos for condition details. This book was possibly published in response to Hodge, 1877. Hodge had been the first since Mowry to report on Arizona mines and mining camps, but the effort is not as thorough as one would hope for. Hinton hammers the mining districts and includes many wood block prints of the mining camps and mines. It is a major and important reference work of great necessity to any Arizona researcher. Another FIRST EDITION copy of this book is held by the Smithsonian Library, where this brief biography on Hinton is published: "Richard J. Hinton (1830-1901), an Englishman, crossed the Atlantic in 1851 and took up residence in New York City. While there he learned the printer's trade and soon became a newspaper reporter. As a reporter he opposed the Fugitive Slave Law, became an anti-slavery advocate, and assisted in the organization of the Republican Party, which came into being in large part to oppose the expansion of slavery as embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. With many another Kansas journalist of the late 1850s, Hinton certainly was "among those that helped to make Kansas free," as he wrote in 1900.

Date: 1878
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State: Arizona
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Provenance: Ron Lerch Collection