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A description of a system of biography : with a catalogue of all the names inserted in it, and the dates annexed to them / by Joseph Priestley ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection CT105 .P7 1803
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronology, Historical--Charts, diagrams, etc.
- Chronology, Historical.
- Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Subscribers' lists -- United States -- 19th century.
- Physical Description:
- [2], 62 p., [21] folded leaves of plates ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- A new edition, with improvements.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Akerman & Hancock for Mathew Carey ..., 1803.
- Notes:
- With a half title.
- The plates are charts.
- Signatures: [A]² B-H⁴ I².
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy imperfect: one plate (frontispiece) only.
- RBC copy has subscribers' list (4 p.) bound in at end of volume.
- Cited in:
- Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 139
- Shaw & Shoemaker 4910
- OCLC:
- 28007777
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