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THE NEW WORLD EMBRACING AMERICAN HISTORY COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA etc.. TO THE PRESENT TIME. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.... With Numerous And Diversified Coloured Illustrations, Entirely New, from Original Designs, Executed in the Best Style, By The First Artists in America.
Brownell, Henry Howard.
New York: 1855, Gurdon Bill.
First thus. 450, 446 pp. [the verso of the last page should be 446, but is misprinted as 1040]. 4to, 24 x 1 6 x 7 cm.
Illustrations: Engravings.
[History - America]
[Engravings]
[America]
Original edition with original hand coloured engravings (47 coloured, ca. 50 b&w. Quarter leather and marbled boards, leather corners. Oversize and weight will require additional postage according to destination. Please, inquire before purchase.
Lacking the backstrip, but binding is solid, the quarter leather/marble boards are both detached both marbled end papers are attached to book block. Content very good and clean, no foxing. Boards worn at edges and corners.

ID: 992762

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