$153
(c. 1881) 21 panels mounted on linen, folded accordian-style in original oblong 8vo cloth-backed boards, stamped in gilt. Color lithograph pictorial timeline. "Third edition, and Twelfth thousand, carefully and critically revised and brought down to 1878." First published in 1871, Adams' pictorial timeline of the world charts history from Adam and Eve to the Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Chinese Empires, the discovery of America and the U.S. Presidents up to the year 1881 and finally terminating in 1900. In addition, the chart includes Egyptian Hieroglyphic letters, the Greek alphabet, ancient tools and important figures in history. Wear to boards; linen backing splitting along several folds; dampstaining along bottom edge; lacking text pamphlet; otherwise colors are in bright condition and a fine example of nineteenth-century American lithography. 22 feet x 9 inches long
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-08-12
