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11:00 AM PT - Feb 16th, 2012
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Title: History of Solano County Comprising an Account of its Geographical Position; the Origin of Its Name; Topography, Geology and Springs...also, A Full and Particular Biography of Its Early Settlers and Principal Inhabitants.
Author: [Munro-Fraser, J.P.] Description: [iii]-[xvi], [17]-503 pp. Illus. with 20 lithographed portrait plates, each with facing blank cardstock sheet. (8vo) 25x16 cm. (9½x6¼) later red buckram, gilt spine title. First Edition.Best early history of the county north of the Carquinez Straits, on the way from San Francisco to Sacramento, and the apricot center of California. Cowan p.597; Howes M897; Rocq 14603. Heading: (California)Place Published: San Francisco Publisher: Wood, Alley & Co. Date Published: 1879 Condition reportRebound, as noted, covers clean and unworn; small skinned spot to front blank leaf, some spotting to contents, a few of the card blanks lightly stained; else near fine.
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