Van Loon's Lives by Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon

Van Loon's Lives is a book by the Dutch-American writer Hendrik Willem van Loon published in 1942. Its full title, deliberately written in a manner already archaic at the time of writing, is 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 dinner guests in a bygone year.The cover is quite worn and loose but the binding inside and all pages are tight. The colour plates are very vibrant and it's clean reading copy.#C009