Author: VAN LOON, HENDRIK.
Title: VAN LOON'S LIVES.
Description: London. George G. Harrap,1960., Reprint, first published in 1943. Colour frontispiece and b./w. illustrations are by author. "Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year." 646 pages, with b./ w. drawings. Contents clean, no inscription ot marks, with attractive colourful endpages, and near fine Cover is very good but corners slightly bumped. D./w. is near fine, still bright, but edges slightly bumped, priced 25/- (£1.25) 1960

Keywords: Bach Mozart Nansen Benjamin Franklin Confucius Plato Breugel Voltaire Thomas Jefferson Sir Thomas More Leonardo da Vinci


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