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CLARA BARTON'S COPY OF THE BOOK ARGUING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS. APPIA, P. LOUIS AND GUSTAVE MOYNIER. Translated by JOHN FURLEY. Help for Sick & Wounded, being a translation of "La Guerre et la Charite." London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. image 1
CLARA BARTON'S COPY OF THE BOOK ARGUING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS. APPIA, P. LOUIS AND GUSTAVE MOYNIER. Translated by JOHN FURLEY. Help for Sick & Wounded, being a translation of "La Guerre et la Charite." London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. image 2
CLARA BARTON'S COPY OF THE BOOK ARGUING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS. APPIA, P. LOUIS AND GUSTAVE MOYNIER. Translated by JOHN FURLEY. Help for Sick & Wounded, being a translation of "La Guerre et la Charite." London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. image 3
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CLARA BARTON'S COPY OF THE BOOK ARGUING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS.
APPIA, P. LOUIS AND GUSTAVE MOYNIER. Translated by JOHN FURLEY.
Help for Sick & Wounded, being a translation of "La Guerre et la Charite." London: John Camden Hotten, 1870.

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CLARA BARTON'S COPY OF THE BOOK ARGUING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS.

APPIA, P. LOUIS AND GUSTAVE MOYNIER. Translated by JOHN FURLEY. Help for Sick & Wounded, being a translation of "La Guerre et la Charite." London: John Camden Hotten, 1870.
8vo. Original blue and white cloth, lettered in gilt, red ross to spine. Upper hinge weak, some chipping to spine, shelfwear.

WITH CLARA BARTON'S OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE. In 1867 Appia and Moynier published La Guerre et la Charite, a full-length treatise that articulated the mission of the Geneva Convention and the International Red Cross, i.e., that relief work should be neutral in war and disasters. Barton signs the front free endpaper: "Clara Barton / of the American National Red Cross / Washington D.C.", dating the signature to 1882 or later, after the incorporation of the American Red Cross. A remarkable association copy.

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