International competition of the Carnegie Foundation : the Palace of Peace at the Hague : the 6 premiated and 40 other designs chosen by the Society of Architecture at Amsterdam and reproduced under its direction.

Vignette by K. Sluyterman on portfolio cover, fasc. wrappers, and t.p. ; In portfolio. The 8 fasc. are in printed wrappers. ; "So far ago as 1902 Mr. Andrew Carnegie announced his intention to found a Library for the permanent Court of Arbitration, created at the Hague by the Peace Congress held in the year 1899 . Mr. Carnegie . took a resolution in the following year to considerably extend his first plan by placing a sum . at the disposal of the Dutch government, to be allocated to the foundation of a building for the use of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and for a Library in connection... Mehr ...