Three volumes of four [without Vol IV - Architecture]. Well illustrated, including some wonderful folding plates. Original full cloth bindings, loose. 8vo. 240 mm. Hardbound. Very good. The copy of Abraham Herr Smith (1815-1894), a U.S. Representative from Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1885). Contents include: I. Introduction; Executive Commissioner's Report; Agriculture: The Vienna International Exhibition, its Antecedents, Inception, Organization, and Results; Abstracts of Foreign Reports on Exhibits from the United States; Report of Hon. H. Garretson; Forestry, by J.A. Warder; Sheep and Wool, by J.R. Dodge. II; Science; Education; Chemicals, by J. Lawrence Smith; Vienna Bread, by E.N. Horsford; Commercial Fertilizers, by Peter Collier; Photography, by C.A. Doremus; Medicine and Surgery, by A. Ruppaner; Physical Apparatus, by Wolcott Gibbs; Instruments of Precision [2 reports] by C.F. Carpenter and R.D. Cutts; Telegraph and Administration, by R.B. Lines; Telegraphs and Apparatus, by D. Brooks; Education [2 reports] by E. Seguin and J.W. Hoyt; Deaf-mute instruction, by E.M. Gallaudet; Governmental patronage of art, by E.M. Gallaudet; Art of printing; manufactures of paper, by G.W. Silcox; Governmental printing institutions, by A.H. Brown; III. Engineering: Manufactures and Machinery, by R.H. Thurston; Sewing-machines, by G.A. Fairfield; Civil Engineering and Architecture, by William Watson; Hydraulic engineering, by Charles Davis; Etc. W50
