Columbus & Columbia American History Great Columbia Expo 1892 fantastic book

(Old Books, 19th Century Books, Americana, Illustrated Books, Columbus, American History, Great Columbia Exposition).

Columbus and Columbia: A Pictorial History of the Man and the Nation. Embracing a Review of Our Country's Progress, a Complete History of America, A New Life of Columbus, and an Illustrated Description of the Great Columbian Exposition.
Published 1892, Boston by Eastern Publishing Co.
832 pages. Text in English. Profusely illustrated throughout, including chromolithographed plates and a folding city plan of Chicago. 

Sold primarily as a wonderful decorative binding for shelf display, a great example of highly decorative cloth gilt bindings of this era.

Publisher's decorative cloth binding, gilt title lettering, gilt spine & cover decorations.

Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Book is not new or in "new" condition.

Binding gently age worn, mostly light or inoffensive signs of handling and time but nothing severe or unsightly, book remains overall attractive as an object.

Paper is gently toned, still clean, tight, sound internally. It appears the book might be lacking a color plate or two, but is otherwise complete.

Still attractive on the shelf. The book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in overall nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws which may be present seem easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail showing how this book survives. The asking price reflects the condition based on our examination and 35+ years full time exposure to antiquarian books, maps and printed ephemera of all types and genres. Flaws seen and/ or described have been taken into account.

Book Measures c. 10 1/2" H x 8" W. A large thick very heavy book.

[B7387].