![[Signed] Some Recollections of the Late Edouard Laboulaye Bigelow, John [Near Fine] [Hardcover]](https://r.kelkoo.com/resize.php?country=ca&merchantId=100567270&categoryId=5101&trackingId=96985762&width=auto&height=auto&image=https%3A%2F%2Fpictures.abebooks.com%2Finventory%2F31788858949.jpg&sign=H3o01wqK4_rArpdxtPGUGUSyIk9sKAcStVH_mey4eY4-)
Small octavo, iv, 81pp. Full green cloth, trim hand-stitched with red thread. Title in gilt on front cover. Solid text block, touch of wear to corners, small white stain to rear cover. A near fine example. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ""Edward Isham / with the compliments and kind regards of John Bigelow / Highland Falls / Sept. 26. 1889."" John Begelow (1817-1911) was an American Lawyer and historian. He served as the United States Minister to France (1865-1866) and Secretary of State of New York (1876-1877). A portion of these ""Recollections"" was read before the New York Historical Society at the celebration of its eighty-fourth anniversary, November 20, 1888. Bigelow played a central role in the founding of the New York Public Library in 1895.
