La Industria Minera de Mexico ; Obra Organizada Bajo la Direccion de Los Ingenieros a Grothe y L. Salazar S. ; Escrita Con El Concurso de Una Comision Revisora Tecnica Integrada Por Los Senores Ingenieros D. Edmundo Girault, D. Carlos W. Van Law y D. Cesa

Mexico: Impr. y Fototipia de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1912. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Large quarto custom bound in institutional brown polished buckram; original printed wraps bound in 319 p, b&w illus (some color); numerous folded maps & folded plans; 29 cm. Ex-library book, card pocket to rear pastedown, faint scuff to folds of spine head & foot, moderately bumped corners, few light marks to boards, little tape residue to rear board, some black ink writing to few front free endpapers, small tear to half-title page, small institutional library bookplate to front pastedown, else overall a very good(-). Hardcover.

Scarce. Signed by author Salazar on front wrapper, beginning with "Homenaje del autor ..." Also includes a holographic inscription by G. Butler Shewell, presenting the book to Columbia University Library; his name also typed at foot of Columbiu University Library bookplate to front pastdown. Front wrapper states "Tomo I" New wraps on original book (rebound). In Spanish. Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico -- Hidalgo (State)