USA: "OUR FIRST CENTURY...1776 TO 1876". One Hundred memorable events in US history, published 1878,

By R M DEVENS

Published by: C A NICHOLS & Co., 1878.

1004 pages including index. Weight: 2.9kg.

Book is showing its age in that the first few pages have detached, to one page before title page and thereafter only one in the preface.The cover is a bit worn and has a large chip off the top of the spine - please refer to pictures above.

With hundreds of plate illustrations.

Just some of the events covered in the first one hundred years of the Republic of the United States of America in this book are:

Death of George Washington
Whitneys' Cotton Gin invention
McDououghs Naval Victory on Lake Champlain
Sublime Meteoric Shower all over the US
Discovery of ether as a preventative of pain
Discovery of gold at Sutters Mill
Civil War
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
and so much, much more!