HISTORICAL SKETCHES, Illustrations of Philadelphia and Official Programme of Days, Religious Services, Processions, Pageants, Exercises, Receptions and Entertainments, Connected with the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Commonwealth of Pe

Bi-Centennial Association: Philadelphia, 1882. Item #99-1999

Illustr, 11.5 x 9.25, pict stapled wraps, 64 pp + ads. Covers soiled, stained, splitting, missing spine pieces and tip of lower right corner (and following page), contents have staining (majority near the back), some soiling, a few tears else good. Full page illustr of the Masonic Temple and the new public buildings in Philadelphia. Loads of ads, a sampling: Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, D. Landreth and Sons' Famous Garden Seeds, Goodyear Rubber Ware House, Edw. K. Tryon Jr. & Co. Shot Guns, Pennsylvania Railroad. Chromolithograph on the front cover of "William Penn Receiving the Charter from Charles II." Scarce.

Price: $250.00

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