PARIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION (1878), REPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS TO THE -- VOLs III, IV, & V (of Five) by (various) - 0

Government Printing Office, Washington DC. Hardcover. Good. 1880 G HB NO DJ 6.5 x 9.5 Green Cloth (shades of 3 vols vary) with gold lettering & cover device; worn at extremities, some hinges started / split. Contents & Illustrations VG to NF. Vol III: 595pp, i ndex damp stained to lower corner 479ff(index), front hinge split covers, Iron & Steel (Morrell), Ceramics & Glass (Blake), Forestry (baker) & Cotton Culture (Young). Vol IV 686pp damp stain to lower corner of first few pages, Chemical processes (includes color fold-outs)(Jenkins), Mining (Hagu e), Steam & Gas Engines (Sweeny), Machines / Tools (Porter), Clocks & Watches (Knight), Railway Apparatu s (includes fold-outs)(Anderson) . Vol V 702pp lacks pp i-vi .(list of illustrations?) damp stain to bottom edge Aricultural Impliments (Knigh t), Horticulture (Campbell) , Pisciculture (Ferguson) (se veral full-page line drawings of fishing boats)