The Miners' Own Book, Containing Correct Illustrations and Descriptions of the Various Modes of California Mining

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1949 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed The Greenwood Press. Reprinted from the original edition of 1858. Scarce in this condition. Introduction by Rodman W. Paul. xi, 35pp. Illustrated throughout with views, facsimiles, portraits, etc. Publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label. Slight offsetting to ends (as usual). A very fine copy. "James Mason Hutchings published this... title to render 'familiar, through correct views and descriptions, everything connected with the immense mining operations of the State.' While focusing on modern mining methods, the text does cover methods and tools used during the early period. Charles Christian Nahl, the great Gold Rush artist, supplied many of the illustrations. There are now recognized as classics" (Kurutz). [Howes I: M-639; Howes II: M-642; Kurutz: 444b; Magee: 70]..