Contains all issues of Harper's Weekly from May 14, 1859 to December 31, 1859, as well as the April 23rd issue and all December 1859 issues of Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, and the June 11th issue of the German language Frank Leslie's.
Good Condition: folio: 3/4 leather with marble boards, scuffed and with some loss at corners; edges scuffed; spine has red label at top with gilt lettering; inside front is ad for a Keystone Mowing and Reaping Machine cut from Scientific American Nov 1863; at least three pages have been cut out and removed (553, 567, and 761); foxing and toning to paper due to age; some creased and dog-earred pages; library card taped inside front on free endpaper with description of contents: “The Third Volume of Harper’s Weekly: a Journal of Civilization: 1859”:New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1859
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