April 12, 2024
Great Men and Famous Women Complete 8 Volume Set
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Selmar Hess Publisher, New York, 1894 full set of 8. "Great Men and Famous Women Vols. I to VIII" Edited by Charles F. Horne. This Edition, published by Selmar Hess Publisher, New York, 1894. Gilded & embossed illustrated hardcover books, partial leather binding. More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History. 126 wood-engravings & typogravures & many text illus. Biographies include Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, San Houston, Frederick The Great, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Moses, Socrates, John Adams, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, King Arthur, Leif Ericson, Marco Polo, Ulysses, General Custer, Marie Antoinette, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Thomas Carlyle, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Goethe, Oliver Holmes, Homer, Victor Hugo, Plato, Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Copper, Daniel De Foe, Shiller, Voltaire, Michael Angelo, Beethoven, Leonardo DaVinci, Mozart, Rembrandt, and many more. Volumes I & II - Soldiers And Sailors Volumes III & IV - Statesmen And Sages Volumes V & VI - Workmen & Heroes Volumes VII & VIII - Artists And Authors. Book dimensions: 9 by 12 inches. For all books: All plates & tissue-guards present. Covers & spines show some wear, scuffed corners and fraying, with only significant wear being to volumes 4 and 8. Otherwise bindings are tight and pages are very clean. PLEASE
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