CALIFORNIA: NEVADA COUNTY DIRECTORY, 1867., BEAN, EDWIN F.

CALIFORNIA: NEVADA COUNTY DIRECTORY, 1867.
BEAN, EDWIN F. Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California. Nevada City: Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1867.
8vo (220 x 142 mm). Tipped-in ad slip. Original presentation binding of blue straight grain morocco, lettered in gilt; custom chemise. Joints cracked, rubbing to edges and spine ends, some spotting.
Provenance: E.G. Waite, of Gregory & Waite, Grocers, Nevada City (bookplate to verso of front free endpaper, name gilt-stamped to upper cover. Appears in the directory for residence and business).

FIRST EDITION of this "notable compendium of early source material, similar in import to the county histories of Thompson and West" (Wheat). The work also includes sketches of the towns and mining camps, a directory of the residents, including their occupations, as well as statistics of mining and other resources and a plethora of fascinating advertisements. This copy with signed cabinet card of Edwin F. Bean inset into panel of chemise. Cowan II p 170; Graff 219; Howes B-278; Wheat Books 13.