Bingham, Hiram (III) - Signed Book "Elihu Yale" HM - World Figures Blind stamped on the front

Blind stamped on the front by photographer Ellinger

shown as Tristan at the 1962 Bayreuth Festival

dated in Birmingham

ready to frame - rare

Cast includes Hans Richter

Bingham, Hiram (III) - Signed Book "Elihu Yale" HM - World Figures Blind stamped on the frontAmerican explorer, politician and academic (1875 1956). Hiram Bingham III is famous for bringing the ruins of Machu Picchu (Peru) of the Incas to the worlds attention when he discovered them in 1911, later becoming a US senator and Governor of Connecticut. Signed book "Elihu Yale", about the merchant who gave the name to Yale University, where Bingham was an academic. First edition, 1939, by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, hardcovers, 362 pages,