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New Mexico

Its Resources, Climate, Geography, Geology, History, Statistics, Present Condition and Future Prospects

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bureau of Immigration / New Mexican Printing Company, 1894. 9¼ inches, octavo. Original pictorial stiff paper wrappers, printed in black with illustrated vignette to front cover. 344pp. Illustrated profusely from photographs, including frontispiece, some plates sepia tinted, with woodcuts in text. Includes folding map of New Mexico at rear.

Fair. Front and rear wrappers nearly detached, each held only by old tape reinforcement near the head of the spine. Chipping and tears to wrapper edges, largest tear about 2". Tape repair to verso of frontispiece. Southwest Museum Library ink stamp and cancellation to inside front cover. George Wharton James Library stamp at foot of title page, and to map. Text block intact. Contents otherwise good and clean.

Excellent primary information on early inhabitants, towns, railroads, and economic endeavors.

Provenance: From the library of George Wharton James (1858–1923), the prolific author, photographer, and popular chronicler of the American West, whose papers and collections are held at the Southwest Museum, the Huntington Library, and the University of New Mexico.