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Title: Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California. Containing a complete history of the county, with sketches of the various towns and mining camps ... also, full statistics of mining and all other industrial resources Author: Bean, Edwin F., compiler Place: Nevada [City] Publisher: Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office Date: 1867 Description: vi, [6], 424 pp. Numerous advertisements. 8½x5½, original leather-backed printed pictorial boards, spine lettered in gilt. Perhaps the most famous of the Nevada County directories, notable for the extended histories of the various settlements and the numerous advertisements in additon to the directory listings themselves. Quebedeaux notes it as the "first Nevada County directory; first history of county as a whole; first book printed in the county... Edward F. Bean was Nevada County assessor and editor and publisher of the Daily Gazette in Nevada City. His history and directory is, by far, the best-known of all California directories. One of the great 'standard' county histories, it is, in the minds of many collectors, dealers, historians and libraries, one of the most valuable - content-wise - of all directories published in the United States." Graff 219; Howes B278; Quebedeaux 36; Streeter 2913; Wheat Books 13. Provenance: Descended in the family of Dr. A. Chapman, dentist of Nevada City, with his half-page advertisement on p.179, and his directory listing on p.139. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers rubbed and scratched, ends and corners worn; occasional fairly minor soiling within, a few signatures sprung, pp. 173-4 (ads) with about a third of the page torn out, still very good. Item number: 197879