Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Volume I
Washington [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1870. Hardcover. Brown cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and insignia on spine. 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 VG, clean, crisp, and tight. Covers, however, are rubbed, spine cloth is wrinkled, and end papers are a bit foxed (none to contents). Ex-lib. copy with marks to spine, fep, and title page; no others. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition, as if never viewed, with no chips or tears. Item #163003
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: $30.00