1877 antique OUR COUNTRY HISTORY lossing U.S. leather

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1877 antique OUR COUNTRY HISTORY lossing U.S. leather

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Description:  This listing is for the complete antique set of Our Country, A Household History for all readers.

This series covers from the discovery of America to 1877 (what was the "present time")

Each book has many illustrations as well as fine engravings on steel

1. Title: Our Country
2. Author: Benson J. Lossing, LL.D.
3. Copyright or other date: 1877
4. Artist: Felix O.C. Darley
5. Publisher: Henry J. Johnson
6. Type of Cover: Hard cover paper over board with  leather trim and spine
7. Dust Jacket?:   None
8. Illustrations: Yes, hundreds
9. # pages: Each volume is around 600 pages for a total of 1866 pages.
10. Inscription: Geo. Agry Jr. Mar 29 1881 Worcester Mass (last name might be wrong)
11. Measures approx: 10" by 7.5"
12. Condition: Leather is dry and brittle, but all spines are still attached as you can see in the pictures. Front and back end pages of volume one are detached but included. Cover and spine of volume two is detached from the pages, but spine and covers are all attached to each other. Pages are a little bit wavy, but clean.

NOTE:   If table of contents or list of illustrations are below, then they have been scanned and converted to text.   Typographical errors will occur.

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