Mitchell, W.H., and J.H. Stevens:

$1,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF HENNEPIN, EMBRACING LEADING INCIDENTS IN PIONEER LIFE, THE NAMES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS, AND THE PROGRESS IN WEALTH AND POPULATION TO THE PRESENT ... The first published history of Hennepin County, Minnesota, offering "a sketch of the first settlement of the State." The settlement of Hennepin County, the authors note, "antedates that of any other County in the State." The volume includes brief biographical sketches of early settlers with information on local railroads, schools, newspapers, churches, pleasure resorts, Lake Minnetonka and Minnehaha Falls, and various towns. Also included is a directory for Minneapolis, "one of the most enterprising cities of the West." With twenty-five pages of advertisements for local businesses at rear. Scarce institutionally and in the market. OCLC locates copies at only nine institutions at the time of cataloguing. The only auction record in Rare Book Hub is for Paullin copy, sold in 1929, and there are no dealer offerings since the Eberstadts in 1954. "First history of the first Minnesota settlement" - Howes. Rare and significant.

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