Narrative and critical History of America (8 volume set)

Justin Winsor

 Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884.

8 volume set. Bound in publisher's boards.  Some of the paper spine labels chipped.  Hardcover.   Clean, unmarked pages. Some soiling to covers. Wear to boards.

Most of the articles are followed by a critical essay on the sources of information, and notes in addition to the foot-notes. v. 1. Aboriginal America. [c1889]--v. 2. Spanish explorations in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. [c1886]--v. 3. English explorations and settlements in North America, 1497-1689. [c1884]--v. 4. French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700. [c1884]--v. 5.The English and French in North America, 1689-1763. [c1887]--v. 6-7. The United States of North America. [c1887-88]--v. 8.

The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. [c1889]. Each volume indexed separately, general index in Volume VIII. Winsor "rapidly became the leading cartographer in the United States, and through his study of maps solved a number of historical problems which had previously been insoluble" DAB. "If competently revised and brought more nearly to date, would be the most useful single work on the Western hemisphere, its history, cartography, and bibliography" - Howes W578.  This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.