Author: INTERNATIONAL (UNIVERSAL) EXHIBITION PARIS 1889 -
Title: Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris, vol. I.
Description: Washinton, Government Printing Office, 1890. thick 8°. orig. cloth, with a large elaborate gilt tooled circular vignette on upper and lower outer boards, depicting both sides of the gold medal as awarded to the United States. (xxii), 571pp. frontisp.(depict. the Champ de Mars, Paris), double-page plate depict. the diploma to the gold medal as awarded to the United States, 1 large extending panorama of the exhibition, 11 plates at end of volume, of which 8 double-page, 3 fold. plans of the grounds with legenda, many other plans of which folded, num.tabs. in text and full-p., indexes. This first volume of the series, complete in itselves, comprises the report of the commission general, with accompanying documents including reports of Officers of the Commission, official regulations, classification, lists of exhibitors. Plates depict. the U.S. Pavillion Liberty, both ex,- and interior, machinery, and the U.S. Promenade. A very good copy. Rare. (corners with very light signs of bumping).

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