This three-volume set of the history of the United States was begun by William Henry Bartlett, and completed by Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward. The first volume covers the discovery and colonization of the US; the second volume discusses the history of the "Administrations of Washington" with a focus on John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; the third volume focuses on exploration and the westward expansion of the US. Each volume is filled with steel-engravings of American cities and portraits of presidents and other distinguished individuals, with a total of 91 plates. Volume I includes a map of North America and a facsimile of the signatures on the Declaration of Independence. Large 8vo, steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume, 698 pp., 720 pp., 726 pp. Half leather with brown cloth covered boards, gilt title and raised bands on spines, and marbled endpapers.

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Condition: B

Plates are generally clean and bright, and range from good to near fine condition, with occasional foxing. Hinges are starting and spines are beginning to detach; Vol. I is missing half of spine. Covers are lightly soiled with bumped corners. Text block in Vol. I and II is generally very good, with an occasional tear or minor foxing. Vol. III has a damp stain along fore-edge, primarily in blank margin.