W.F. EDWARDS' TOURISTS' GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF THE TRUCKEE BASIN

Truckee, California, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Scarce directory of Nevada County, California. Quebedeaux notes: "First book on the region; first separate directories of Boca and Truckee, preceded only by the Nevada County Directory for 1871-72; and one of the first two guides to a section of the High Sierra outside of Yosemite [...] Very Scarce". 12mo: 37, [7], [36, ads] p. with 12 woodcut plates. Original pebbled green cloth binding, with gilt titles and decorative blind stamping. The hinges are just starting. Mild mottling along the extremities of the front board; else very good. Quebedeaux 38; Rocq 5983; Paher 539; Howes E73; Cowan II, p.192. (Inventory #: 77725)