2. America: an Encyclopaedia 1881 leather IL

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America: an Encyclopaedia of Its History and Biography. Arranged in
Chronological Paragraphs With Full Accounts of Prehistoric America and the
Indians and Notes on Contemporaneous History. Containing a Complete record
of explorations, conquests, revolutionary struggles, political changes,
social movements, industrial achievements, curious, important and thrilling
events, remarkable expeditions, romantic adventures, and marvelous
inventions, in the discovery and developement of North and South America,
with Biographies of the Leaders Thereof. Prof. Stephen M. Newman, M. A.
Third Edition Revised and Brought Down To Date. Elegently Illustrated.
Chicago: Coburn & Cook Publishing Co., San Francisco, Cal. Lansing Mich.,
Fond Du Lac, Wis., Perryville, Mo. 1881. Presumed First Edition.

To The Homes of America, Whos Love of Liberty and of Country, Will Finally
Make This Continent THE LAND OF TRUE FREEDOM.

The book measures 7.25 x 9.75", all edges gilt, 3/4 leather, illustrated
with wood engravings, 905 pages, marbled endpages, besides the front board
starting (attached but starting), slight darkening of pages from age, the
text block is in very good condition
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