Reminiscences of Foreign Travel: A Fragment of Autobiography

1894. Winthrop, Robert C[harles]. Reminiscences of Foreign Travel: A Fragment of Autobiography. Priv. Print, 1894. 104 pp. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Light shelfwear, boards lightly scuffed and soiled. Author's inscription to front free endpaper. "The Honorable / William M. Evarts, / with the best regards / Robert Winthrop". Very good. $150. * "William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 - February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 1876" (Wikipedia).