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American naval biography / compiled by Isaac Bailey.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Navy.
- History.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pepper, William (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Britton, Amos (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- iv pages, 5 unnumbered pages-257 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- (H. Mann & Cco. printers)
- Place of Publication:
- Providence (R.I.) : Published by Isaac Bailey, near the Turk's head, 1815.
- Contents:
- William Henry Allen
- John Cushing Aylwin
- William Bainbridge
- John Barry
- Nicholas Biddle
- William Burrows
- Stephen Decatur
- Isaac Hull
- Jacob Jones
- Lawrence Jones
- Thomas Macdonough
- Charles Morris
- Alexander Murray
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- David Porter
- Edward Preble
- John Rodgers
- Thomas Truxtun.
- Notes:
- Biographies of Decatur, Jones, and Lawerence (the last by Washington Irving) had appeared with portraits in the Analectic magazine (Philadelphia) March-Dec. 1813, [n.s.] v. 1, no. 6; v. 2, no. 7-8 ; those of Murray, Bainbridge, Barry and Burrows, with portraits, in the Port Folio (Philadelphia) July 1813-May 1814, [3d ser.] v. 2, no. 1, 6; v. 3, no. 2, 5.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of William Pepper.
- Culture Class Collection copy has written bookplate of Amos Britton.
- Cited in:
- Sabin, 2732.
- Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed.), B31
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 33904.
- OCLC:
- 1680238
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