Great Men and Famous Women: Volume III: Statesmen and Sages

New York: Selmar Hess. VOLUME III OF 8 VOL. EDITION: STATESMEN AND SAGES: ALFRED THE GREAT; ST. AMBROSE; ARCHIMEDES; ARISTOTLE; ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY; ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO; FRANCIS BACON; WILLIAM BRADFORD; AUGUSTUS CAESAR; JOHN CALVIN; CHARLES I, OF ENGLAND; CHARLES V. OF GERMANY; MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO; NICHOLAS COPERNICUS; OLIVER CROMWELL, DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL; DEMOSTHENES; DIOGENES; ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND; FREDERICK, THE GREAT ELECTOR; GALILEO GALILEI; JOHN HUSS; ISABELLA OF CASTILE; JUSTINIAN THE GREAT; JOHN KNOX; LOUIS XI OF FRANCE; LOUIS XIV; MARTIN LUTHER; LYCURGUS; MAHOMET; MOSES; ST. PATRICK; WILLIAM PENN; PERICLES; CARDINAL RICHLIEU; SOCRATES; SOLOMON; THEMISTOCLES The biographies of 40 prominent personages in history. CLEAN & BRIGHT, Brown leather, finely pebbled boards w/darker brown, leather quater binding & at corner tips, gilt engraved lettering & thistle design to cover & banded spinestrip, with only mild show of rubbing & shelf wear (if any). Red closed edging match marbled endpapers on coated stock. interiors near fine. NO names, markings, soil, smudge, off-setting, age discolor or foxing. Frontispiece w/ labeled tissue guard, decorated title page, high grade quality paper of sturdy stock, profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated throughout, w/wood engravings, photogravures, typogravures & pen & pencil sketches, by numerus artists' with captioned tissue guards. VERY PRETTY & binding makes a fine attractive display to any library shelf! . Fine. Hardcover. F. 1894.