[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
![The Story of the Gibson Gusher. From the Colusa Daily Sun [cover title]. California, Oil](/pictures/thumb/McBRB802.JPG?v=1568724911)
[Colusa, Ca.]: 1921. [8]pp. Pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Light wear and creasing; a few short closed tears at wrapper edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrap. Even tanning. A scarce promotional for the Young Oil Company and its development of an apparently lucrative oil strike at Bear Creek in Colusa..... More
![Group of Promotional Materials for the La Blanc Oil Company in Kern County, California]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1289.JPG?v=1587834253)
[Oakland: 1909]. Six pieces, including three real photo postcards, typed letter, folding map, and transmittal envelope. Light creasing to images; light tanning to letter and map. Interesting promotional material for the La Blanc Oil Company for their developments in the Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California in 1909. A...... More
Los Angeles: Brooks Bros. [ca. 1936]. Blueprint map, 21.5 x 18.25 inches. Old fold lines, minor wear. A few pencil annotations. An interesting and quite attractive blueprint map that shows the oil and gas fields of New Mexico, where oil was first discovered in 1924. The map was compiled and..... More
![Business Archive of Mid-20th-Century, Western Oil and Mining Investment Ephemera]. Oil](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1607_01.jpg?v=1600533551)
[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
![Oklahoma Oil Wells Company General Report [caption title]. Oklahoma, Oil](/pictures/thumb/McBRB664_01.JPG?v=1564256222)
Muskogee, Ok. 1918. [4]pp., on a large bifolium. Previously folded. A couple of very minor losses at fold points. Light tanning. Scarce, illustrated report from 1918 on the developments and production of the Oklahoma Oil Wells Company, based in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Much of the text is dedicated to an assessment..... More
![Partial Ledger Recording Barrels of Oil Extracted from a Pennsylvania Oil Field in the 1890s]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB613.JPG?v=1565781919)
[N.p., but likely Pennsylvania]: 1889-1892. [28]pp. Folio. Original black half sheep and marbled boards. Spine and corners heavily worn, boards worn. Several leaves cut away, with later French funeral notices pasted in on stubs. Ledger recording transactions for several companies and individuals extracting oil in Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1892..... More
![Mimeograph Sales Agent Manual for Standard Oil, with Added Material]. Standard Oil of Indiana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB910_01.JPG?v=1573312863)
[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
Houston: 1950. Map, 22 x 17 inches. Folded. Light wear and soiling. Map of the Louisiana and southern Texas oil fields along the Gulf of Mexico. Each county is outlined, with oil fields noted in green and gas fields noted in red. More
![Archive of Correspondence and Records Related to Speculative Claims on the Spindletop Estate]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1450.jpg?v=1607005204)
[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
Fort Worth: Standard Blue Print Map & Engineering Company, [ca. 1925]. Large blueline map, measuring 33 x 31 inches. Folded. Light wear and a few short separations along folds. One small internal tear. An unrecorded, quite detailed map of land ownership, oil wells, and industry development in the Texas panhandle..... More
[Venezuela: 1943]. 48 original photographs, each 8 x 10 inches. Quarto. Plain leather boards, twin-bolt binding. Some photos detached from mounts, some wear to covers, but images generally fine, with typed captions affixed beneath each photo. A rare photographic document of Venezuelan oil production in the early 20th century. This..... More
![A Sure Thing! A Big Thing! [caption title]. Wyoming. [Oil](/pictures/thumb/McBRB370_01.JPG?v=1600194774)
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