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The entire year bound in one volume, with title-page for the year and index. Many noteworthy engravings, including a great double-page print of Lincoln entering Richmond, political attacks by Thomas Nast, Reconstruction, Indians, and a group portrait of the Atlantic Baseball Club of Brooklyn in their uniforms. The title-page is browned and tattered, but the contents are clean and tight, with minmal age-browning. Leather spine very worn, marbled boards detached but present. A few pages have had small tears repaired with archival tape. On a whole an excellent copy of this matchless record of American life. Size: Folio

wITH A FULL PAGE PORTRAIT OF THE ATLANTIC BASEBALL cLUB HARPER'S WEEKLY, A Journal of Civilization. Volume X, No. 471-522 (January 6 - December 29). For the Year 1866. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Folio. (iv),832 pp. A wood-engraved title-page and an index for the entire year precede the weekly issues. Although the news coverage is dominated by the American Civil War, one of the more interesting events unrelated to the war is the laying of the first trans-Atlantic cable. Several issues contain illustrations by Thomas Nast, including the large double-page "Santa Claus and His Works" in the final issue. In addition there is a full page portrait of the Atlantic Baseball Club. The individual issues are sewn together. The original cloth-covered boards (blocked in blind, with gilt-stamped title to upper board) are present, but are worn, soiled, and detached; the backstrip is mostly missing. The paper is lightly age-browned, as usual, and mostly clean, with only occasional, very light foxing. A complete year of this illustrated periodical, it is offered as is.