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Description: Title: Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Years 1876 - 1882 with Index for 1876 to 1887
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Printing Year: 1884
Number of Volumes: 8 volume set

Notes: Bound in full leather with bright gilt lettering to spine panels, this antique set is a scarce nineteenth-century reference work "embracing political, civil, military and social affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry." These are volumes I - VII of the new series (plus index). The work contains in-text illustrations, charts and maps. The volumes show mild external age/wear, and are solidly bound with clean, lightly age-toned pages with marbled edges and endpapers. The books measure approximately 7" x 10 1/4". Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $25.50