United States History by Lossing 1877 leather 3 vol set 100+ engravings & images

Our Country. From the Discovery of American to the Present Time (1877). by Felix O.C. Darley.

Publ. NY, 1877 by Johnson & Miles. 1866 pp., 12 steel engravings, dozens of plates and hundreds of smaller line drawings in-tex., 

Period 1/2 leather, covers ornately gilt titled, marbled endpapers and edges.

Pictures capture well how this nice antique set survives. Joints scuffed, old 19th century paper spine labels, ex-libris with book plates, cloth of vol. 3 sunned/ faded. Contents tight, clean, fresh, nearly as when first issued.

Clean, sound, tight, wonderful looking books on a shelf. Nice monumental pictorial set, very heavy.

Each book measures c. 7 3/4" W x 10" H. x 6" along the shelf.

B15643