[Rarebooks] FS:"A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860..."

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860..."

By J. Leander Bishop. Published in New York by the Johnson Reprint
Corporation in 1967.

First published in 1868. “Exhibiting the origin and growth of the
principal mechanic arts and manufactures, from the earliest Colonial
period to the adoption of the Constitution; and comprising annals of the
industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts,
with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of the
Centennial Census. With an appendix containing statistics of the principal
manufacturing centers, and descriptions of remarkable manufactories at the
present time”.

Hardcover. 3 volumes. 6”x8.5”, 702 + 654 + 574 pages; black & white
portraits. A little light cover soil, otherwise in fine, clean condition. 
 $175~

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