From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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503pp. plus twenty full-page lithographic portraits. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Stain along inner margin of one portrait (not affecting image), else very clean and neat internally. Very good. A scarce and informative early California county history. The text begins with an extensive history and description of Solano County (located at the north end of San Francisco Bay), including a discussion of its early settlement, natural resources, politics, and civic structure. One chapter is devoted to murders and other trials, and another focuses on Mexican land grants. Several individual towns are profiled, including Benicia, Vallejo, Suisun, and Vacaville, as well as a number of smaller communities. Nearly two hundred pages are devoted to biographical sketches of prominent citizens, twenty of whom are illustrated with portraits. HOWES M897, "b." ROCQ 14603. COWAN, p.597. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3649. Seller Inventory # WRCAM42848
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Title: HISTORY OF SOLANO COUNTY.ALSO A FULL AND ...
Publisher: Wood, Allen & Co., San Francisco
Publication Date: 1879
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