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

New York: Selmar Hess. VOLUME IV OF 8 VOL. EDITION: STATESMEN AND SAGES: JOHN ADAMS (LETTER FROM ADAMS TO A FRIEND-ON THE "DESTINY OF AMERICA"); LOUIS AGASSIZ; PRINCE VON BISMARCK; SIMON BOLIVAR; EDMUND BURKE; JEAN FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION; GROVER CLEVELAND; GEORGES CUVIER; CHARLES DARWIN; BENJAMIN DISRAELI; BEN FRANKLIN; LEON GAMBETTA; WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE; HORACE GREELEY; ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT; ANDREW JACKSON, THOMAS JEFFERSON; ABRAHAM LINCOLN; WILLIAM MCKINLEY; MARIA THERESA; COUNT DE MIRABEAU; ISAAC NEWTON; DANIEL O'CONNELL; CHARLES STEWART PARNELL; JEAN HENRI PESTALOZZI; PETER THE GREAT; MAXAMILIEN ROBESPIERRE; WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD; LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS; GEORGE WASHINGTON (LETTER FROM WASHINGTON TO HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER ON THE SUBJECT OF "LOVE"); DANIEL WEBSTER (LETTER FROM WEBSTER TO HIS FRIEND BRIGHAM ON THE "CHOICE OF A PROFESSION"); WILLIAM III, OF ENGLAND. The biographies of 37 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.