![[COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.] BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. Achievements of Civilization. The Book of Wealth. Wealth in relation to Material and Intellectual Progress and Achievement. New York: The Bancroft Company, 1896-1900.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01677_0229_000(121917).jpg?w=1)
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[COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.] BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. Achievements of Civilization. The Book of Wealth. Wealth in relation to Material and Intellectual Progress and Achievement. New York: The Bancroft Company, 1896-1900.
10 volumes, large 2o (550 x 425 mm). Hundrets of photographic reporductions in text. Contemporary cloth, each cover set with an original water color (455 x 355 mm), by W. How, R. Wiley, H. M. Armstrong, H. Sandham and others, gilt edges (some minor wear to edges, a few stains). Provenance: O.C. Barber (printed for him by Bancroft).
LIMITED EDITION, number 32 of 150 sets signed by Bancroft on limitation leaf of the "Edition Cygne Noir." "Companion and consort to The Book of the Fair (see previous lots) is this Book of Wealth, one marking the progress and recording the achievements of the human race as exemplified in the Columbian Exposition" (Preface). (10)
10 volumes, large 2
LIMITED EDITION, number 32 of 150 sets signed by Bancroft on limitation leaf of the "Edition Cygne Noir." "Companion and consort to The Book of the Fair (see previous lots) is this Book of Wealth, one marking the progress and recording the achievements of the human race as exemplified in the Columbian Exposition" (Preface). (10)
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