[Boston?]: 1900. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Quarto. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds and a couple of short closed tears at lower edge. Rare illustrated prospectus for the potentially fraudulent Bernalillo Oil Company, based in Boston and San Diego at the turn of the 20th century. The text promises..... More

[Mystic, Ct. 1946-1954]. Approximately 210 individual documents of varying lengths. Light wear. Post-World War II business archive of George Deneke, an Old Mystic, Connecticut, resident who invested heavily in oil and mining operations in the Western United States and Canada. Present here are well over 200 individual documents documents relating..... More

[Whiting, In. ca. 1927]. [119] leaves, printed on rectos only; interleaved with fifteen additional leaves containing pasted brochures and ephemera. Small folio. Original half cloth and boards, brad-bound; one brad lacking. Cloth worn, hinges tender. Light soiling and wear to contents. Wonderful mimeographed handbook produced for and distributed to bulk..... More

[Various places, mostly Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. 1931-1932]. Eighty-five typed and manuscript letters, including thirty mimeographed copies of a form response. Moderate chipping and wear to a few letters, most previously folded but otherwise in strong condition. A fascinating collection of correspondence relating to spurious Depression-era claims on the..... More

Abilene, Tx. Zingery Oil Map Co., [ca. 1930s]. Blueline map on drafting linen, approximately 54 x 41 inches. Minor wear, contemporary pencil notations. A substantially-sized and seemingly unrecorded Texas oil map featuring the Joiner oilfields in Rusk County, Texas, the first known map to show the Joiner Subdivision, with oil wells, claim ownership, and..... More

Gainesville, Tx. W.W. Howeth Co., [ca. 1920s]. Blueline map, 27 x 29 inches. Old folds, very short separations to some fold lines, most reinforced with archival repairs on verso. Extensive hand coloring and some pencil notations. A rare and seemingly unrecorded cadastral map showing land ownership and mineral rights along..... More

[Fort Worth: ca. 1925]. Three flyers, each [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Old folds, moderate toning and creasing. A trio of Texas oil company promotionals calling for investment in various wells and leases by the Cameron-Anderson Company, based in Fort Worth. All three of the publications tout the opportunity..... More

Chicago: 1902. Folded broadsheet, 28 x 18.75 inches, with several photographic reproductions. A couple of small separations along folds. A very scarce promotional from the early Wyoming oil boom. The Chicago firm of Charles O. Richardson here urges potential investors to "Get in at Bed Rock," and in particular promotes..... More