Description / Information:
Packed weight = 05.50kg. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage. Please contact us using the 'Ask the Bookseller a Question' link before placing your order. For non UK customers special arrangements apply to parcels weighing over 5Kg (2Kg for Canada). The Bianco Library website has 5 pictures of this book including both medium and large images. This description is to be read in conjunction with these photographs. In very good condition overall. [4pp chronology and index] + 552pp + all supplements and all fold out plates. Looks complete to the best of our knowledge.This is one of a number of volumes ex the Pratt family Ryston Hall, Norfolk. Index of engravings and of articles and chronology of events. No long running subjects but lots of interesting items on e.g. Gold in Australia , The Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition, Inauguration of President Pierce, various railways, Laying first telegraph cables across English Channel, Harriet Beecher Stowe in Britain, Duke of Wellington, Seminole Indians visit to Washington, Perry's Expedition to Japan, beginnings of photography, Anglo-Burmese War in Burma etc. etc. Deep purple black cloth with blind stamped decorations and large gilt decoration (the Crystal Palace) and titles. Spine sunned to brown with masses of gilt decoration and titles, head and tail frayed. Tightly bound and generally clean.
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