OFFERED HERE is a leatherbound volume of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, issues from June to November 1856 bound together in period leather. Sized 10x8 inches, 864 pages. Illustrated with hundreds of engravings. Double column format. Spine leather replaced with leather patterned cloth, a paper spine label. Interesting content described below.

1) Negroland and the Negroes, travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea and other African places. 17 pages, double column, profusely illustrated.

2) Messages of Eastern Travel, in 5 parts. Travel to Syria, Egypt, Arabia.

3) Visit to Red River, Texas.

4) Wild Life in Oregon.

5) The Dismal Swamp.The Great Dismal Swamp is a large swamp in the Coastal Plain Region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It is located in parts of the southern Virginia independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk and northern North Carolina counties of Gates, Pasquotank, and Camden. Some estimates place the original size of the swamp at over one million acres (4,000 km2). As of 2022 the size of the Great Dismal Swamp is around 750 square miles (480,000 acres; 1,900 km2).

6)  Sulphur Springs of New York, Clifton Springs.

7) Little Dorrit, the classic from Charles Dickens, first appearance in the US. 

Lots more.