196 + [12] ad pp. With 14 plates from photographs, with advertisements on the versos; other inserted ads & a few other illustrations; 2 folding maps. 9x5¾, original black cloth imprinted in gilt, leather spine. First Edition.

Listings of the residents, businesses, mines, etc., with a sturdy assortment of advertisements at front and rear with some inserted in the text; the map is a plan of Grass Valley. Rocq 5961. Provenance: Descended in family of A. Chapman, dentist in Nevada City - he is listed on p.40, with several other Chapmans who were dentists, his sons apparently (dentistry ran in the family, including Chapman's wife, one of the pioneer women dentists in the region).