Lossing. A Centennial Edition of the History of the United States 400 engravings

Lossing, Benson J. A Centennial Edition of the History of the United States: From the Discovery of America, to the End of the First One Hundred Years of American Independence; With a Full Account of the approaching Centennial Celebration. Illustrated by Four Hundred Engravings. Hartford: Thomas Belknap, 1876. [10810] Recently rebound in dark wine cloth, bright gilt titles, new end papers, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches; binding is clean and tight. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of George Washington, extra color lithograph plate of Liberty seated, in one hand a sword and in the other the US Constitution, with flags, eagle, and shield. 745, lx, [1] generally clean pages, some short tears in a few margins; several of the small wood engraved portraits in the text have had their beards filled in with pencil. Many full-page steel engravings, hundreds of woodcut text illustrations. Good. Hardcover. The pencil marks can be seen in the beard of the figure in the last illustration.  There are not ma