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Winsor, Justin ed.. Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 8. , 1889.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1889, Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, over-sized HB (no dj, brown leather boards) 604pp, one of The Later History of British, Spanish and Portuguese America series, Good/Poor (edges and surfaces of leather covers rubbed, rear hinge cracked, front hinge loose but intact, interior clean and unmarked, previous owner's name) Heavy volume will require additional shipping charges.
Seller: Jennifer Duncan, North Aurora, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$151.80 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boston, publication dates range from 1884 to 1889; COVERS NOT AS PICTURED IN STOCK PHOTO; exterior in poor condition; leather covered boards; corner and edge wear with board exposed at corners; all boards detached but present; back strips heavily chipped some completely missing, several with title blocks missing; heavy leather rot at back strips; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; text block edges and end papers decoratively marbled; INTERIOR PAGES IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION; Interior is clean and unmarked; individually paginated; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$685.00 + shipping
Description: 470pp+640pp+578pp+516pp+649pp+777pp+610pp+604pp, b/w illustrations, maps, three-quarter bound in burgundy leather, rised bands and gilt title blocks to spine, marbled covers and endpapers, quarto volumes. Limited and Numbered, 160 out of 550cc. scuffing to covers, mild rubbing to leather edges and corners, minor chipping to leather hinges of all volumes except vol.6 which remains clean, light bumping to corners, 1/2" chip to leather spine vol.1, all bindings remain tight, text clean throughout, page block edges lightly dirty, Very Good volumes
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Riverside Press edition, first published over a period of six years from 1884-1889. 8 volumes. Small, thick quarto. Approximately 500-600 pages per volume. Well-illustrated with hundreds of portraits, facsimiles, engravings, maps, facsimile signatures, etc. Each volume indexed separately, the final volume containing a general index. Extensive notes. Publisher's three-quarter dark brown morocco, spines gilt and blind-stamped, dark brown pebbled cloth sides. Light extremity rubbing. Bookplate in each volume. A fine set. The set is "composed of critical essays by different writers covering American history in detail to the adoption of the Constitution and briefly to about 1850. The most valuable parts of the work are the critical essays on the sources and Mr. Winsor's notes, which together form an exhaustive and generally critical account of the printed and manuscript sources and of the secondary authorities on American history. The volumes are rich in facsimiles of maps, historical illustrations, and portraits. For the student it is the most useful and valuable work on American history that he can possess" (Larned). An important and comprehensive reference, this work has much on aboriginal America and pre-Columbian exploration; Spanish, English, and French explorations and settlements; the English and French in North America; the establishment of state and federal governments and the statesmen involved, early trade and treaties with other nations, especially among the Americas, slavery and slave-trade, and much more. It is regarded as one of the most useful works on the Western hemisphere, its history, cartography and bibliography. Justin Winsor (1831-1897) was the librarian at Harvard College and the first president of the American Library Association. He also authored and edited numerous other important titles of Americana. [Howes I: W-578; Howes II: W-577; Larned, Literature of American History: 404].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.