Barnes's Historical Series: A Brief History of the United States by Barnes - 1885

American Book Company, 1885. Fair condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1885 printing, 1st edition. Tan cloth boards sport extensive embossing and decorative artwork. The exterior extremeties are bumped and rubbed through. The interior has some random pencil markings, and two previous owner names in ink on the front PDE and FEP. Contents include numerous tipped-in color maps, as well as several in black and white. The binding is loosening at one point mid-book, but is not cracked, and as you can imagine, the pages are aging. One can consider this book a piece of history in and of itself, since it was published just after the Civil War. ANTIQUE. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.