Museum of Antiquity by L.W. Yaggy and T.L. Haines

Museum of Antiquity:
A description of Ancient Life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago.

by L.W. Yaggy and T.L. Haines

Philadelphia, PA: The Eastern Publishing House
1883 (originally published 1880)

Complete with all illustrations, and tissue guards on the seven steel plate engravings including the frontispiece.

Condition: Thick, heavy leather-bound hardcover; significant chipping to lower spine and smaller chipping to upper spine, hinges worn but holding securely. Page edges gilt. Cover boards have rubbing to edges, cover gilt remains bright. Marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle around inside cover. Interior is clean and unmarked, and binding remains secure.