NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA

Book Description

Boston and New York:: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.,. [1889].. 8 vols. . First edition. Original publisher's brown cloth with title in gilt on spine. A very good set. Contents of set are as follows: Volume 1: Aboriginal America [c1889]. Volume II: Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century [c1886]. Volume III: English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689 [c1884]; Volume IV: French Explorations and Settlements In North America and those of the Portuguese, Dutch and Swedes 1500-1700 [c1884]. Volume V: The English and French in North America 1689-1763 [c1887]. Volume VI: The United States of North America Part I [c1887]. Volume VII: The United States of North America, Part II [c1888]. Volume VIII: The Later History of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America [c1889]. Each volume indexed separately, general index in Volume VIII. Larned: LITERATURE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 404: "Composed of critical essays by different writers covering American history in detail to the adoption of the Constitution and briefly to about 1850. The most valuable parts of the work are the critical essays on the sources and Mr. Winsor's notes, which together form an exhaustive and generally critical account of the printed and manuscript sources and of the secondary authorities on American history. The volumes are rich in facsimiles of maps, historical illustrations, and portraits. For the student it is the most useful and valuable work on American history that he can possess." HARVARD GUIDE p.73. HOWES W-578. .

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