Scientific American 1894-8 American Technological Newspapers Lot of 5 issues

(Old Periodicals, 19th Century Newspapers, Americana, Scientific American, Illustrated Periodicals, Tiger Hunting, Naval Warships, Oil Drilling).

Scientific American Supplement.
Published weekly, New York by Munn & Co.
5 issues, each c. 20 pages. Text in English. Illustrated throughout. Nice assortment of dated advertising as well, often illustrated.

Nice 19th century American magazine lot with pleasing visual content. Issues included in this lot are individually scarce: September 15th, 1894; June 22nd, November 23rd 1895; May 25th,  December 17th, 1898.

Bindings remains clean, tight, and sound, various mostly small signs of age, time and handling, nothing offensive or major. Overall a nice looking example.

Small age flaws or defects include possible random old creasing, edge chipping, small light old staining, etc. Overall entirely acceptable example of what is likely a scarce survival. The pictures give a very good sense of how the item survives.

Virtually all periodicals of this era are somewhat scarce today as loose complete issues. Like most random survivals of old periodical printing, any specific example (like this one) is likely among a relative handful still extant. As each decade goes back from 1950, the rate of scarcity for any specific magazine or paper item increases noticeably.

Text block remains overall clean, and displays a pleasing age patina.

Lot remains attractive on the shelf. It displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail and our best attempt to convey how this antique lot survives. This lot is not new- it is old and has been handled by different owners in the past.

Periodicals Measures c. 16 1/4" H x 11" W.

[B2552].