Van Loon's Lives by Hendrik Willem van Loon

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 always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as dinner guests in a bygone year.
Written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon. First Australian edition, published 1944. Good condition.