Memoirs of Prince Metternich.

METTERNICH, Prince Richard [William Tecumseh Sherman].

$850.00

Item Number: 145749

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881-82.

Early edition of this set of incredible memoirs; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. General William Tecumseh Sherman and his son P. T. Sherman’s booklates to the front panel of each volume. Octavo, five volumes, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Prince Metternich to Vol. I. In very good condition with some rubbing and slight loss to the crown and foot of each volume’s spine. This set was inherited by P. T. Sherman, who transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, the books were held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Richard von Metternich, was an Austrian diplomat and the eldest surviving son of the diplomat Klemens, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein. He followed his father into diplomacy in 1855, joining the Austrian Empire's embassy to the Second French Empire in Paris as a Legationssekretär (essentially a junior diplomat on a probation period). From then on, he took on different positions in Austrian society, even attempting, unsuccessfully, to convince France to intervene on behalf of Austria during the Austro-Prussian War.