BANCROFT’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1876 HC) 6 Volume Set
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HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
From the Discovery of the ContinentCentenary Edition
In Six Volumes (Complete Set)by George Bancroft1876, Centenary Edition (“Thoroughly Revised Edition”), Little Brown and Co., Boston. Six Volumes. Approximately 600 pages per volume. From the Prefatory Note, “For more than forty years, the author has been accustomed to invite and receive, from friends in all parts of the Union, instruction on the branches of American histor...y to which they had specially given attention; and…new and more complete materials have become accessible from the most various sources….. The notes and papers which have thus been accumulated form the groundwork of the present revision, to which a solid year of close and undivided application has been devoted.” Covers United States history from the earliest discoveries by Europeans through the Revolutionary War Peace Treaty. Hardcover books in Good+, tight and clean with no marks except X-Library bookplate in Volume I, ink markings on the title pages and library paste-ons on the spines of all volumes. All of the interiors are clean and white with some browning. Matching red stamped covers with gilt titles on the spine are bright and clean; some wear at spine ends and spine edges. No dust jackets.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
From the Discovery of the ContinentCentenary Edition
In Six Volumes (Complete Set)by George Bancroft1876, Centenary Edition (“Thoroughly Revised Edition”), Little Brown and Co., Boston. Six Volumes. Approximately 600 pages per volume. From the Prefatory Note, “For more than forty years, the author has been accustomed to invite and receive, from friends in all parts of the Union, instruction on the branches of American histor...y to which they had specially given attention; and…new and more complete materials have become accessible from the most various sources….. The notes and papers which have thus been accumulated form the groundwork of the present revision, to which a solid year of close and undivided application has been devoted.” Covers United States history from the earliest discoveries by Europeans through the Revolutionary War Peace Treaty. Hardcover books in Good+, tight and clean with no marks except X-Library bookplate in Volume I, ink markings on the title pages and library paste-ons on the spines of all volumes. All of the interiors are clean and white with some browning. Matching red stamped covers with gilt titles on the spine are bright and clean; some wear at spine ends and spine edges. No dust jackets.
