Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: 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. Embracing as subjects all those which best type the genius, spirit and energy of the age, and serve to bring into brightest relief the grand march of improvement in the various domains of human activity
Philadelphia: A.J. Holman & Co., 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's binding sample. Orig. green publisher's cloth. Various pagination. With alternate leather binding sample spine pasted down inside front cover. Magnificently and copiously illustrated. Spine tilted, chafing to extremities. Age toning to interior. More