Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Volume I
Washington [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1870. Leather bound. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 184; 324 (with one bw folding plate); 43; 7 (plus XXXII bw plates, including some folding); 47; 39; and index (66 pp.). Contents NF, clean, crisp, and tight. Covers, however, are rubbed and chipped at spine with a small chunk missing mid-spine (see photo). The illustrated plates are in excellent condition, as if never viewed, with no chips or tears. Item #162987
Contains the Introduction, with Selections from the Correspondence of Commissioner General N.M. Beckwith and Others; General Survey of the Exposition, with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section; Report on the Fine Arts, by Frank Leslie; The Fine Arts Applied to the Useful Arts (with the 7 bw plates); Extract from the Report of the International Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coins; Bibliography of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867; and General Alphabetical Index to the Reports.
OCLC: 313221505
Price: $50.00