Van Loon's lives: 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 d
by van Loon, Hendrik Willem
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Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
ill. (some col.); plates (some col.).
extra half-title ([4] leaves) loose or added.
book-plate on half-title.
Biographies of famous people. Includes Erasmus, William the Silent, George Washington, Sir Thomas More, Bach, Breughel,
Cervantes, Shakespeare, Moliere, Descartes, Emerson, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Robespierre,
Torqumada, the Buddha, St. Francis, H.C. Andersen, Mozart, Beethoven, Napoleon, Plato, Confucius, Peter the Great, Charles XII of Sweden,
Voltaire, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Montaigne, Rabelais, Emily Dickinson, Frederic Chopin, Benjamin Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Jakob van Heemskerk,
Willem Barents, Surgeon de Veer, Thomas Jefferson.
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- Bookseller
- HW Toad Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23
- Title
- Van Loon's lives
- Author
- van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Illustrator
- Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Format/Binding
- Red buckram; paste-down label on title (spine sunned)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- [1st.]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Pages
- xxii, 886
- Size
- 22 cm.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Lives by van Loon; Historical personages; Famous people -- Biography
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general antiquarian books.