"Holabird's High-Grade": Mining, Numismatics, Railroadiana, & Americana (June 2023 Live Auction)

Noe's Views, No. 29 South C Street, Virginia, Nevada. Reverse has paper label identifying this as the Utah Mine Hoisting Works. The contrast is ...

Great CDV of an unidentified Comstock mine or milling operation. View shows building with smokestacks and piles of wood out front. Medium contrast and

Lot of 2 different. Both feature political banners. Both by Continent Stereoscopic Co., Publishers, New York. Opposite views of the main street of Vir

This is an c.1860s view (see the CDV also in this sale) being reproduced on a stereoview in the 1870s. Excellent early view of the main street in Virg

Excellent early view of the main street in Virginia City, with Gillig, Mott & Co. hardware building identified on the right (makers of the famou...

Fantastic view by Lawrence & Houseworth, 317 & 319 Montgomery St., San Francisco (identified on reverse). 710. "Pioneer Stages, leaving...

Rare view looking down on Virginia City and down Sixmile Canyon." Watkins' New Series of Pacific Coast Views, 427 Montgomery Street, S.F. (...

This is a fantastic boudoir-sized photograph showing the amazing amount of mines, mill buildings, businesses, and homes that encompassed Virginia City

Possibly a Lawrence & Houseworth view. Reverse has the following pencil notations: "Virginia City looking west from mint, L&H." Po...

From Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, Portrait and Landscape, 26 Montgomery Street, opp. Lick House Entrance, S.F. Good contrast and sharp focus. ...

Watkins" New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 26 Montgomery Street, S.F. "Panorama of Virginia City. No. 5. 4116" This was one of ...

"Panorama of Virginia City from the North End, No. 3. 4122." One view of a four part Virginia City Panorama with the California Pan Mill i...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Lawrence & Houseworth, 1864, 240. "Virginia City and Mount Davidson, from the East." Reverse is stamped with th...

Continent Stereoscopic Co., New York Publishers (active New York c. 1870-c. 1899). "475-Virginia-City, Nevada" 4.25 x 7" There appear...

DeGroot’s 1860 Map of the Comstock and Washoe Region, Original Fred N. Holabird This is one of perhaps five known copies of De Groot's...

14.5 x 23.5" black and white litho by Oakley and Thomson Boston. Survey July 1864 Westcoatt on claims located in sept and oct of 1859. The map ...

16.5 x 8.5" hand colored map of the lower Comstock and immigrant consolidated mining company mines, Lyon county Nevada limo by GT Brown and Co ...

Undated map on vellum that shows claims patented by the California MC, Con. Virginia, Ophir, JB Overton, Union Consolidated, Mexican, and Central Silv

"Showing the Virginia, Gold Hill, Silver City, Silver Star and Six Mile Canon Mining Districts. Storey and Lyon Counties Nevada." 1923. Ra...

Rare map not seen before by us. By E.R. Lovewell. Scale 1 inch=1,000 feet. Compliments of the Consolidated Chollar Gould & Savage Mining Company...

Lot of 15 different. Group has Bliss, Yerington, Mackay, and Fair autographs, plus other significant mining superintendents. Includes: Mariposa Mill,

Lot of 4. 1) Rare 1874 Bank of California check issued to the Carson Wood Company, signed by Fair. Manuscript "Pac. M&M Co." written n...

Lot of 2. Each is on the check form with green print and RN-D imprinted revenue. 1) No. 131, issued to the Virginia & Gold Hill Water Co. in 187...

Lot of 4 different. The Sapphire Mill was built in the early 1860s and was located 1/4 mile below Gold Hill. It was originally known as JB Gagnon &a...

Extremely rare Comstock autograph. Virginia & Truckee Railroad receipt, Carson, March 14th, 1872. Issued to E. Penrod for 9 7/8 cords of nut pin...

Three cubes of dense compressed wood from the square set which was used to support the mine walls at the Cons. Virginia Mine. About 1.5x2.5x2.5"...

So rare FH didn't even know this existed! This ultra-rare pamphlet originally went with the Vischer views. While it does not contain the views, ...

Rare. The Comstock Lode: Its Character, and the Probable Mode of its Continuance in Depth by Ferdinand Baron Richthofen, 1866. 83pp. First edition. Ri

Six key Nevada mining references, 1866-78. As per FH, "includes the single most important, original source material for mining of the period. E...

Carson City: John J. Hill, State Printer, SPO, 1875. First edition, limited to 3000 copies of which 500 were bound in cloth. 8 7/8 x 5 3/4. 191 pages.

Very rare gilded cover, Bonanza Mines and the Bonanza Kings of California by S P Dewey, Their Five Years Reign. 1879. 87pp. Spine wear, repaired fron

Comstock Mining and Miners by Lord. Original 1883 printing as a monograph of USGS. 451pp with 117 illustrations. 2 maps, 1 folding. A comprehensive vo

Down Memory Trail to The Comstock in Pictures - by John J. "Count" Mahoney. No date listed, but its publication is mentioned in the Nevada...

3 Comstock geology books. Nevada Bureau of Mines, 1969 Geology and Mineral Deposits of Washoe and Storey Counties Nevada, 140pp with detached cover. A

The Silver Mines of Nevada-1865, Wm. C Bryant & Co. 1865, 77pp. plus folding map. Original printed wrappers. In chemise and half morocco slipcas...

Published by Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, San Francisco., 305 pp, illustrated with 17 plates with 6 pgs. of advertisements at end; no...

1931. In American Fork Canyon about half way between South Fork and Deer Creek.. Five different locations listed for the Gold Ledge: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

25 pages. Includes a 5 page photograph of mine near Bingham. Looks hand colored. 5 page photo of Carr Fork Canyon and mining property. Fold out maps i

Two reports. 1) 1917. 23 pages. Includes 6 page colored fold out map showing geology, principal workings, ore body and surface improvements. 2 page co

Color panorama of the Kennecott copper works. Facts about the mine and its value included on the verso. Located in Bingham County. c1930 Date: c1930

About 25 pieces of Camp Floyd mining ephemera. Camp Floyd was a very early Utah mining district. Mainly notices of location-White Cap. Golden Bell, Un

Economic Geology of the Mercur Mining District, Utah by J. Edward Spurr. The Mercur mining district lies on the southwestern flank of the Oquirrh Moun

By D MacVhie. December 1, 1908. Twenty-seven pages. 12 page foldout map of the underground workings. 6 page fold out map of the Coalition and adjacent

15 pieces of Rush Valley mining ephemera, mostly Notice of Location-Royal Mining, Ada No 2, April Fool, Viper, Orient, Eureka, Pluto and more. c. 187

Proposal from the Norberg Company through Kaiser Steel for a Cylindrical Drum Mine Hoist for the Sunnyside Mine. Estimated shipping weight 171,000 pou

Includes an archived photograph, billheads (Mountain State Rubber, Hooper Building, Shields Stationary, Garlock Packing, Johns-Manville, Utah Fuel, et

Contract between the Mammoth Mining Company and the International Smelting Company on the transfer of ore from the mine to the smelter (no more than 5

The story of Andrew Steedman as told through the Mammoth Mining Company. Large stack of papers c1920. Many of them specifically mentions Steedman...

Almost 100 years old! Eight pages. Two pages of pictures of the Horn Silver Mine and Mill at Frisco. The Tintic took over the famous Horn Silver. Thre

Lot of four. 1) Utah-Apex Mining Company 1918 annual report. Seven pages with financial reports and information on the last year. 2) 50th Anniversary