11 vols. Includes: Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851. 2 (of 3) vols. (Vols. I & II). Illus. with numerous steel engravings by Beard Mayall; Vol. I also with a folding chromolithograph frontispiece of "The Arms of All Nations" and added steel-engraved title page. 4to. Gilt-decorated and tooled green cloth, a.e.g. 1st Ed. London Printing & Publishing Co., [c.1852]. (Internal foxing). * The British Section at the Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873...Official Catalogue... [4], 154 + 48 ad pp. Illus. with numerous wood engravings throughout text and architectural drawings, including 5 folding plans (2 in color) and a folding map frontispiece. 9½x7, full gilt-ruled red morocco, tooled and lettered in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. 1st Ed. London: Johnson & Sons, [c.1873]. * McCabe, James D. The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition, Held in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of American Independence... [3 copies]. Numerous wood engravings, some folding, 2 steel-engraved frontispieces. 8vo. First one bound in a gilt-decorated orange-brown cloth (insect wear to rear cover and upper spine, binding shaken); second in half calf & boards, marbled endpapers (worn with rear board detached, front detaching); third half brown morocco & boards, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers (some sunning to upper margins, front hinge cracking, still near fine). All 3 published, Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., [1876]. * Sandhurst, Phillip T., et al. The Great Centennial Exhibition: Critically Described and Illustrated. 544 pp. Numerous wood engravings, steel-engraved frontispiece. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black, lettered in gilt. 1st Ed. Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler & Co., [1876]. (Binding shaken). * Visitors' Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia... 2 large folding maps attached to pastedowns (rear map in color). 12mo. Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1875]. * Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia. 48 sepia tone wood engravings throughout, map. (Oblong) 3x4¾, green cloth. Thomas Hunter Pub., 1876. (All but first and last pages detached together). * Souvenir of the Centennial Exhibition: or, Connecticut's Representation at Philadelphia, 1876. Numerous wood engravings throughout (some folding), steel-engraved frontispiece. 8vo. Hartford: Geo. D. Curtis, 1877. (Frontispiece, title page and pp.15-16 detached). * Jenks, Tudor. The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls. 246 pp. Illus. from photos. 9½x7¼, original pictorial boards rebacked with original spine laid on. 1st Ed. NY: Century, [1893]. (Ex-library with rubberstamps, white call-numbers, hinges and joints cracked with tape repairs, pp. 79-80 torn out and loosely laid in). Together, 11 vols.
A nice collection of early American World's Fair books published from 1852 to 1893.