Author: Bartlett, W.H. and B.B. Woodward
Title: The History of the United States of North America; from the Discovery of the Western World to the Present Day; Vol. 1: From the Earliest Period, to the Installation of Washington As First President; Vol. 2: From the Administration of Washington to That of Madison; Vol. 3: From "the Second War" to the Present Times. By W.H. Bartlett, Continued by B.B. Woodward
Description: New York, George Virtue & Co. [, 1856. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Covers rubbed and edge-worn; several small white spots on front cover of vol. 3; backstrips rubbed; backstrip of vol. 3 separating; previous owner's intials on preliminary blanks; handwritten presentation on chapter page of two volumes. Pages adjacent to plates with no tissue guard (about half) are browned; nearly all plates are free of foxing or have only unobtrusive foxing. Dampstain at top margin on all plates of vol. 3, and top and outside margins on all plates of vol. 2, not affecting engravings. A complete set, with all of the 84 in-text plates called for, the tinted folding map of North America (in very good condition), and 2 of the 3 frontispiece plates (lacks the plate of The Pilgrims Embarkening from vol. 1). In addition, this copy includes three plates not called for: Trenton Falls; The Narrows, Lake George; John Hancock. The plate of James Polk, called for in volume 3, is in volume 1. A total of 89 engraved plates and one map. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards. ]. Three volumes, separately paged. Illus. Frontispiece in two volumes. .

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