shown as Tristan at the 1962 Bayreuth Festival
very minor scratches over surface
Cast includes Hans Richter
Blind stamped on the front by photographer Ellinger
Bingham, Hiram (III) - Signed Book "Elihu Yale" HM - World Figures shown as Tristan at theAmerican 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,