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THE RED CROSS DUNANT, JEAN-HENRI. Un Souvenir de Solferino. Double-page chromolithographed map. Half-title. 4to, original sheep-backed cloth, spine
THE RED CROSSDUNANT, JEAN-HENRI. Un Souvenir de Solferino. Double-page chromolithographed map. Half-title. 4to, original sheep-backed cloth, spine faded and scuffed. H. F. Norman bookplate. Geneva, 1862
- Notes: first edition. The publication of Dunant's account of the sufferings of the wounded at the Battle of Solferino led to the 1863 formation of a committee that later become the International Red Cross, and to the 1864 establishment of the Geneva Convention. In 1901 he was co-recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize. Garrison-Morton 2166; Norman 670; Printing and the Mind of Man 350.
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