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Lempriéres biographical dictionary : or, Sketches of the lives of celebrated characters in every age and nation   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Lemprière, John, 1765?-1824
Title
Lempriéres biographical dictionary : or, Sketches of the lives of celebrated characters in every age and nation
Publisher
New York : Reed and Jewett
Description
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"Embracing warriors, heroes, poets, philosophers, politicians, statesmen, lawyers, physicians, divines, discoveries, inventors, and generally, all such individuals, as from the earliest periods of history to the present time, have been distinguished among mankind; abridged from Lempriere's Biographical dictionary, and containing every article in that work, with additions of several hundred names, from Allen, Walker, Jones, and others; to which is added, a Dictionary of the principal divinities and heroes of Grecian and Roman mythology; and notices of one hundred eminent living individuals: with an appendix, containing sketches of the lives and characters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson"--T.p
Book, leather; front and back covers detached, loose pages, spine chipped
Includes holograph markings in ink on rear leaves: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams; Great men's names are rarely forgot
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Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Biography
Language English
Publication date 1826
publication_date QS:P577,+1826-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: lincolncollection; americana
Accession number
lempriresbiogr00lemp
Notes book has no TOC page, pages are stained, text faded and runs into gutter, do to tight spline some text lost in gutter
Authority file  OCLC: 1048207870
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Internet Archive identifier: lempriresbiogr00lemp
https://archive.org/download/lempriresbiogr00lemp/lempriresbiogr00lemp.pdf
  • IA contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
  • IA digitizing sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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