Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MONTANA.) Great Falls and Cascade County: Historic, Scenic, and Biographical [caption title]. Frontispiece plate. 78 pages. Folio, 15 1/2 x 12 inches, stiff pictorial wrappers with alternate title "Great Falls, Montana, Historic and Scenic," staple-bound, moderate wear, 1-inch closed tear with tape repair, detached from text block; final leaf detached with moderate wear, otherwise minor wear to contents. [Great Falls, MT: Tribune, 1899]

Additional Details

A lively promotional piece including biographies on many of the town's pioneering businessmen, as well as a history which begins with Lewis and Clark. The cover features a reproduction of Charles H. Russell's 1878 drawing, "Discovery of the Great Falls of the Missouri"; Russell was an early resident of the town. Howes G347 ("aa"). 4 copies in OCLC, and none traced at auction.