RARE 1856 1st American History Wars 2 Vols Goodrich Antique Old Vintage Books

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This is an extremely rare, beautiful, and interesting antique book set of 2 illustrated volumes with numerous wonderful engravings / plates, blindstamped red cloth hardcovers, a 1st first edition published in 1856 by Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, full of fabulous details and accounts relating to history, engraved frontispiece and onion skin tissue guard intact, entitled ", Recollections of a Lifetime, or Men and Things I Have Seen," "Historical, Biographical, Anecdotical, and Descriptive," by S.G. Goodrich with over 1100 pages. I have seen this 2-volume edition sell in the past for $125 to $175 in worse condition.Topics mentioned include Jefferson and Democracy, Jerome Bonaparte, Federalism, the Stove Party and the Anti-Stove Party, Pilgrims, Colonel Bradley, Napoleon, the Puritans, Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin, the Gun Factory, History of Connecticut, The War of 1812, Baltimore Riots, Treason, Forts, Ships, Land Warrants, American Indians including the Creeks and Chippewa, the Battle of New Orleans, George Washington, Noah Webster, Colonel Jessup, Migrations to Ohio, the Famine of 1816 and 1817, New York, William Blackwood, Scotland, Cooper's Pioneers, London, the Missouri Compromise, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, the Revolution of February 1848, Geography and Chronology, Small-Pox, Classes of the People as to Descent, Lewis Olmstead, read more