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Lot 148
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History of Nevada 'Thompson & West' 1881

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Title: History of Nevada with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
Author: [Angel, Myron, editor]
Description: 680 pp. Profusely illustrated with lithograph plates of scenery, residences, businesses, etc.; numerous steel-engraved portrait plates. (4to) 11¾x8½, rebound in red buckram, gilt spine; all edges gilt. First Edition."Exhaustive work on this state and its fifteen counties" - Howes. "...there is very little worth knowing about Nevada before 1881 that cannot be found in the first statewide Nevada history." - Paher. The lithographic views by Britton & Rey are of particular value. Graff 64; Howes A273; Paher 27.
Heading: (Nevada)Place Published: Oakland
Publisher: Thompson & West
Date Published: 1881

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Recent rebinding in fine condition; dampstain to fore-edge margins of first 25 pages of text, dampstain to first 6 lithograph views extending onto image; contents else very good or better.

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