The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin ...
Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [3], iv, [1], 20-825, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Recent black cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules on the spine, a library binding; all edges marbled. With recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece map and with several full-page portraits of citizens of Sauk County. Completing the title page: "containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources; an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages - their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies; its war record, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; the whole preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and constitution and of the constitution of the United States. A local Wisconsin county history, difficult to find in commerce. Ex-Library. Item #000016933
Call numbers stamped in gold on the spine, a library bookplate on the front pastedown, the year 1880 written in ink on the title page.
Price: $100.00