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Title: A General Business and Mining Directory of Storey, Lyon, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties, Nevada, embracing Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, Dayton, Sutro, Empire, Carson City, Reno, Franktown, Washoe City and Steamboat Springs Author: Bethel, John D., & Co. Place: Virginia City, Nevada Publisher: John D. Bethel & Co. Date: 1875 Description: lxv, [1], 355 pp. 3 inserted advertisement leaves; occasional advertisements in the text. 9x5½, original leather-backed printed boards, spine lettered in gilt. Very rare business and mining directory of Nevada counties during the height of the Comstock Boom. OCLC/WorldCat lists only four copies in institutional libraries, at Yale, the Newberry Library, University of Nevada Reno, and Southern Methodist University. Paher 124; Quebedeaux mentions it on 226, but does not give it an individual listing. Provenance: Descended in the family of Allen Chapman, dentist, who relocated from Nevada City, California, to Virginia City, Nevada. He is not listed in this directory, but his name is inked in the margin where it would have been. Lot Amendments Condition: Boards a little darkened, front joint splitting at top; near fine. Item number: 197882