April 12, 2024
1875 fine gilt Victorian binding biography Galileo Chaucer Byron Cervantes &more
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Men of History by Eminent Writers. An anthology of short biographies of important men.Beautifully bound in the original publisher's cloth with elaborate gilt & black stamped design. The gilt on the spine is still quite fresh & bright. Illustrated with full page portraits.Subjects include : Alexander the Great, Caesar, Charlemagne, Peter the Great, Oliver Cromwell, Henry VIII, Wellington, Napoleon, Cicero, Lorenzo de Medici, Machiavelli, Sir Walter Raleigh, Charles Fox, William Pitt, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Copernicus, Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton, Leibnitz, Benjamin Franklin, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Swift, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Rousseau, Goethe, De Foe, and more.Authors of the biographies include De Quincey, Hazlitt, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Voltaire, Gibbon, etc.(4D)
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