"The Leisure Hour" (A family Journal of instruction and recreation) for the year 1870. This book has 840 pp. and is full of events of the era. You'll be amazed at all the topics, way too many to list here but I will indicate of few (the ones that interest me the most, anyway):
Age of animals, Asiatic exploration, An adventure in Falkland Islands, Indian traveling in 1839 and 1869, The Thugs if India, Iron ship building, London Fires, The "man in the iron mask", Medicine of the dark ages, Military strategies, The adventures of a mummy, American Indians, Giant pine trees of California, Deep sea explorations, Charles Dickens, Ecclesiastical Reforms, A geologist upon flints, Lizards, Railway collisions, U.S. Internal revenue, A Surgeon's experience at Waterloo, Pompeii-ruins, archaeology, anthropology, etc etc etc Full of engravings and some color ones too. Lots of these events were novelty back then but today some of these event are historic and proved to change the world. Told from the time it happened. This book is full of history. The book is large and heavy. The binding is ribbed leather as are the corner tips. The front cover seems like leather and is peeling and the entire binding comes off. However you just need to glue it back. It is just the glue that has weakened. There is foxing throughout but not bad. Page 183/184 is torn and missing as is the frontis plate, title page, 1 page from index and the last couple of pages of book. Nothing major. I'm making it sound worse on purpose. These books are very rare and insightful. Hard to find. I guarantee you will enjoy many hours of reading and learning. This one is for the collection!
