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Nevada County Directory, 1871-72 [163209]

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Nevada County Directory, 1871-72 [163209]
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Nevada County Directory for 1871-72: containing the names, business and location of merchants, farmers. manufacturers, professional men, miners, book-keepers, salesmen, clerks, and all adult male citizens of the county. Also, railroads, stage lines, corporations, companies, mills, schools, churches, etc. Complete general and business directory of the residents of Nevada County - McKenney, LM., compiler. - Sacramento; H.S. Crocker & Co., 1871. xvi, 303 pp. (front cover is p.i, front pastedown p.i, p. 303 is rear pastedown; pp. -xvi, 1-2, & 286-303 are advertisements, with other ads within). Wood-engraved plate of the Sacramento Female Seminary; inserted ad tor D. Hicks & Co, Book Binding, inserted 4-page slip for Pacific Mutual Life Insurance. 21.5x14 cm. (8Ωa5% ), original quarter calf & printed pictorial boards, expertly re-cased & strengthened. Rare, early directory, the second of Nevada County, California, and the first directory of the region after the transcontinental railroad, containing the first directory appearances of Boca, French Corral, North San Juan and Truckee. Quebedeaux notes that both Boca and Truckee had previously been thought to appear first in Edwards's Tourists' Guide of the Truckee Basin, 1883. The place of residence and profession of each person listed is given, the great majority being miners. The numerous advertisements include those for the Exchange Hotel in Grass Valley; the Red Bluft independent newspaper; Nevada and Dutch Flat Stage Line; Bearden's Gallery for photography in Nevada City; Grass Valley Brewery; s.s. Blaisdell Photographic Gallery in Grass Valley (*I Make Old People Young, and Young People Good Looking"); the Truckee Hotel; Yo Semite House in Stockton; the National Exchange Hotel in Nevada City (still there); and many more. Gratt 2985; Quebedeaux 37; Rocq 5960. ink ownership signatures of E. M. Roberts and Thomas S, Stillwell to front free endpaper; small "F" bookplate to front pastedown traces the provenance to lohn J. Ford Jr, a well know numismatist. Just light rubbing and wear to boards, spine a bit of rubbing with cracking to rear joint, ends lightly chipped; near fine condition, contents clean.


Date: 1871-72
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: Nevada Co.
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