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A universal biographical dictionary : containing the lives of the most celebrated characters of every age and nation : embracing warriors, heroes, poets, philosophers, historians, politicians, statesmen, lawyers, physicians, divines, discoverers, inventors, and generally, all such individuals as from the earliest periods of history to the present time have been distinguished among mankind : to which is added a dictionary of the principal divinities and heroes of Grecian and Roman mythology and a biographical dictionary of eminent living characters.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, Charles N., 1793?-1838.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography--Dictionaries.
- Biography.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 444 pages ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Biographical dictionary
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford : Andrus and Judd, 1833.
- Notes:
- Attributed to C.N. Baldwin. Cf. Checklist Amer. imprints.
- Cf. Wolf, E. From Gothic windows to peacock, 160.
- "This work embraces every article in Lempriere, generally in an abridged form; it also contains many of the articles found in the Biographical works of Jones, Watkins, Allen, &c. not included in Lempriere; besides a few original notices, prepared for this work ..."--T.p. verso.
- In double columns.
- OCLC:
- 124073503
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