United States History by Bancroft 1879 lovely leather vol set w/ many engravings

History of the United States of America From the Discovery of the continent. By George Bancroft. In six volumes (here we have the first 5 of the 6).

Publ. Boston, 1879 by Little, Brown. w/ 21 steel engraved plates (almost bank note level quality) and dozens of wood engraved plates.

Period 1/2 leather, marbled covers, endpapers and edges, well illustrated with fine steel engravings & full page plates.

Note- the set is lacking the final volume (vol. 6) which appeared to cover through George Washington's presidency (?). 

Pictures capture well how this fine antique set survives. It is complete from the discovery up through Sept. 1777 and the American Revolution.

Clean, sound, tight, wonderful looking set on a shelf. Small scuff spots to leather, nice antiquarian look. Top of rear cover of vol. 3 with a slight indent bump to the board invisible when viewing the set and easy to forgive or overlook.

Each book measures c. 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" along the shelf for the 5 vol. set.

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