un souvenir solferino, Edition originale (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First American edition. 8vo, 95 pages, foxing, cloth The first complete translation into English of Dunant's work. He related his experiences at the Battle of Solferino, which eventually inspired him to found The Red Cross, and to initiate the Geneva Conventions, which eventually won him the first Nobel Peace Prize. " You armed humanity and served liberty - Victor Hugo." "One leaves this work with a curse on war - Brothers Goncourt." Two portrait photographs.

First Edition. First edition thus. Private cloth with gilt title on spine, small pictorial shelf label on front pastedown endpaper. Edition of 1200 copies, of which nos. 46-1200 are on velin blanc; this copy is no. 736/1200. 4to. Illustrated with photographic plates relevant to the history of the Battle of Solferino. Centenary edition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the author. A Printing and the Mind of Man title in the first edition. This edition includes, besides the text and the documentary plates, a photographic portrait of Dunant, a reproduction of a page of the original manuscript, and a valuable bibliography of the early editions of Un Souvenir de Solférino, including the first translations of the work in various languages. Scarce.

With 1 double-page map of Solferino and environs. 2 leaves, 115 pp. 4to. Modern boards, orig. wrappers mounted (slightly dust-soiled). Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. First edition, privately printed and not for sale, of this important document which led to the founding of the Red Cross. In summer 1859, Henry Dunant (1828-1910), travelled in northern Italy, seat of a cruel war, and was an eye-witness to appalling scenes of bloodshed at the battle of Solferino. In his book he summarizes his distressing experience of seeing wounded soldiers left to perish on the battlefield for lack of medical assistance. He stresses the need to constitute a permanent society for the aid of war casualties. The idea began to take shape in February 1863, when the "Société Genevoise d'Utilité Publique" set up a committee of five members, including Dunant, to consider his proposal. Two international conferences were held in Geneva in October 1863 and 1864, which resulted in the first Geneva convention, an international agreement for the care of wounded soldiers, the proper treatment of prisoners of war and the civilian population, and the protection of Red Cross activities in the field. It was adopted and signed by 14 European countries.- A good copy. - PMM 350; Garrison/Morton 2166; Waller 2639; Hook/Norman 670; Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates (1990), 1945; Borst 2821; Weigelt, Les éditions Fick (1936), no. 89; En français dans le texte: Dix siècles de lumières par le livre (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1990), 284; cf. François, Le berceau de la Croix-Rouge (1918). RED CROSS ;

First edition of Dunant's account of the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino, describing the chaotic circumstances and developing the idea of a neutral organization to provide care to wounded soldiers. Privately printed at Dunant's expense and distributed to leading European political and military figures, the report was instrumental in the establishment of the Red Cross the following year. "Dunant, a Swiss philanthropist, must have been aware of Florence Nightingale's work in the Crimea, for it was what he read of the treatment of the sick and wounded in that war that drove him to the seat of the war in Italy between the French and the Austrians in 1859. He was present at the battle of Solferino, where the casualties were appalling, totalling nearly 40,000 on both sides. The treatment of the wounded was worse than callous: it was virtually non-existent. Dunant's account of the state of affairs, disarmingly entitled A Souvenir of Solferino, produced almost immediate results. An unofficial international conference met in Geneva in October 1863, and in the following year the Swiss Government called for an official conference at which the Geneva Convention was drawn up and signed on 22 August 1864. This provided for the humane treatment of the sick and the wounded, and the proper treatment of prisoners of war and the civilian population. After hesitation on the part of some governments, including the British, and as the result of subsequent conferences, the Convention as it now stands was signed in 1906 by the governments of every civilized country in the world. Dunant was the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901" (PMM). Garrison & Morton 2166; Heirs of Hippocrates 1039; Printing and the Mind of Man 350. Tall octavo (273 x 174 mm). Double-page coloured plan of the battle. Early 20th-century green quarter calf by Arne Asper of Geneva, marbled sides and endpapers, original wrappers bound in. With the bookplate of Edmond Cheneviere (1862-1932), mayor of Cologny, Geneva from 1899 to 1910. Sunned, repairs to wrappers, contents lightly toned; a very good copy.