An instructive and interesting collection of illustrated miscellany, designed for popular reading. Embracing historical events, geographical descriptions, scientific discoveries, personal narratives, instructive biographies, magnificent creations of art, sublime operations of nature, antiquities of ancient, and relics of feudal times. With one hundred and fifty illustrations; representing cities, landscapes, castles, marine views, aqueducts, viaducts, bridges, manufactories, palaces, churches, monasteries, antiquities, and developments in the animal and vegetable kingdoms.

Published in 1859, this copy features 804 pages with slight foxing and staining. This does not obscure the text.