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Oversized pictorial book on history from the origins of civilization to Napoleon. Interesting aspect is that the drawings in books used the same facial representations of major historic figures-Alexander, Caesar, Columbus, Napoleon,etc. Almost as if the artist reused the same faces for each period in history. Even background characters. I mean that as the now funny part. Used many colors and the renderings were as stills from a cartoon.
Very vivid artwork on the ancient civilizations-Mesop, Nile, Ganges, Mekong, Yangtze and later BC empires-Greek, Persian, Roman. In particular there is a detailed piece on two rammed ships at Salamis.
I visit ebay every now and then for it but no luck as there are a few thousand entries.
The drawn characters were rather large and filled the pages. Actually they all seemed to be a bit pudgy! I actually found an acquaintance who remembered the same book and read it as a youngster as well!
Ah. That was my first guess...that it was a Giant Golden Book because I had a couple in the 50s myself. One was a book of Bible stories with great drawings.
Glad you found it.
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