Washington and Napoleon, a Fragment

by Francis Lieber

$275 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

NY: Metropolitan Fair for the Sanitary Commission, 1864. First edition, 1/200 copies. Small 4to 21 cm . 12 pp. Both Washington and Napoleon have been men of high action, and some points between them must necessarily exist; but to find them is the work of ingenious research rather than of inquiring candor. Lieber 1800-1872 was professor of history and political economy at the Univ. of South Carolina, 1835-1856. Inscribed by Lieber on the front endpaper

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