1887 Physical Geography

This collection of four maps comes from a series of plates originally published completely enclosed in a large portfolio of brown cloth over wood, which closed by means of a flap with leather straps and metal clasps. We offer one half of the portfolio cover itself with four of the original chromolithograph plates and maps. The first plate illustrates myriad land-based features, with 48 separate pictorial renderings numbered to correspond to the descriptions which are included at the lower border of the plate. A few examples include hills, mountain, volcanic regions, canyons, rivers, streams, creeks and springs, etc. The illustrations are numbered and correspond to like-numbered descriptions included in the lower border. The second plate features the various sorts of industries which are directly derived from underground geologic formations, including natural attractions such as caves, along with a wide variety of mining operations, i.e., gold mining, salt mining, silver and copper mini