Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century
Subtitle: the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ...
By: by James P. Boyd ; assisted by a corps of thirty-two eminent and specially qualified authors
Publisher: Columbia Pub. House
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Subjects: Modern History; Progress; Inventions; Bookbinding; Specimens
Notes: [2] xviii, [19]-20, 26, 45, [55, [57], 60, [63], [65], [81], [87], 89, [95], [105], 112, [115], 117, [125], [135]-136, 146-[147], 150, [159], [161], [163], [171], 173, [175], 177, 190-[191], 193, 206-[207], 212-[213], [215], 223-224, [227], [231], 241, [245], 251, [253], [261], 265, 269, [271], [277], 279, [283], 292, 294, 298, 302-304, [307], 321, [339], [341], 345, 347, 360-[361], 367, 371, 373, [375], 380, 386-[387], 397, [421], 427, 429, [443], 464, 468, [471], [473], 489, [491], 495, 505, [509], 513, [515], 523-524, [527], [537], [543], 546, 552, 564, 566, [571], [583], 586-[587], 589, [591], [597], [615], 626, [629], 630-[631], 640, 642-[643], 645, 647, [649], 651, 654, [665], 667, 669, [677], 680, 690-[691], 693, 697, [2],  p., [32] leaves of plates.

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