[Rarebooks] FS: Bancroft's History of the U.S., 9 volumes in red calf

[Charles Agvent]

BANCROFT, George. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE  DISCOVERY
OF  THE  AMERICAN  CONTINENT.  Boston: Little  Brown  1866-1867.  Nine
volumes  uniformly  bound in half polished red calf with calf  corners
and  marbled boards and endpapers with black leather author and  title
spine  labels  and  gilt  spine decorations. Later  editions  of  all,
without   the  tenth  and  last   volume  not  published  until  1874.
Illustrated  with  seven portraits and five maps. These  nine  volumes
begin  with the discovery of the continent and end with the Revolution
in  1778.  Though Bancroft's style was often turgid, his  history  was
far  superior  to anything previously published on the subject and  is
still  of great interest today. He "took the subject out of the  hands
of  mere annalists and commentators, and raised it to the dignity  and
interest  of  philosophical  narration"   (Duyckinck,  CYCLOPAEDIA  OF
AMERICAN  LITERATURE,  p. 99). Howes B-88; New Howes B-84. Two  labels
lacking,  five others chipped. Some rubbing to joints and spines,  but
covers  very  tight and contents very clean. A more  than  presentable
set of this important work. Very Good                          $350.00

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