A Pictorial History Of the World's Great Nations From the Earliest Dates To the Present Time

UNITED STATES: T. N. JAMES & CO., 1884 RARE, VERY NICE THREE BOOK SET, LIGHT TAN HARD LEATHER COVERS. WEAR EDGES AND ON SPINE, FIRST BLANK PAGE INSIDE VOLUME I AND III LOOSE, OTHERWISE TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TERRIFIC ARTWORK AND ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. GOLD PRINT, BLACK AND RED COLOR IN SPINE DESIGN. LARGE, HEAVY BOOKS WITH SET WEIGHING 13.4 POUNDS.… Read more about this item

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NATIONS FROM THE EARLIEST DATES TO THE PRESENT TIME, Selmar Hess, 1882, first or early edition, 3 volumes complete, scuffing and wear to the fore edge corner tips, scuffing with modest wear to the spines, else vg copies with fine contents bound in the publishers full leather binding with raised spines and… Read more about this item

Selmar Hess, 1882. Leather Binding. Good/No Jacket. 3 volumes, complete as issued. Uniformly bound in period 3/4 brown morocco over pebbled cloth, spines with raised bands and gilt tooling, elaborately gilt large globe designs at center of front covers, marbled edges and endpapers (spines faded; some wear to edges; small chip to top of spine of volume one;… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Selmar Hess, 1882. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. Three volume set. First printing. 1184 pp. in total, consecutively numbered, profusely illustrated with full-page steel-engraved plates plus many ills. in text, decorated endpapers, morocco binding with elaborate gilt titles and borders, five raised bands on spine with gilt decorations. A very deluxe production. Internally Fine with no… Read more about this item