The library of American biography / conducted by Jared Sparks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866, Editor.

Kennett, Richard James., Publisher.

Hilliard, Gray & Co., Publisher.

Charles C. Little and James Brown (Firm), Publisher.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Biography.

United States.

Physical Description:

25 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Other Title:

Sparks's American biography

Place of Publication:

Boston : Hilliard, Gray ; London : R.J. Kennett, 1834-48.

Contents:

v. 1. Lives of John Stark, Charles Brockden Brown, Richard Montgomery, and Ethan Allen.

v. 2. Lives of Alexander Wilson and Captain John Smith.

v. 3. The life and treason of Benedict Arnold.

v. 4. Lives of Anthony Wayne and Sir Henry Vane.

v. 5. Life of John Eliot, the apostle to the indians.

v. 6. Lives of William Pinkney, William Ellery, and Cotton Mather.

v. 7. Lives of Sir William Phips, Israel Putnam, Lucretia Maria Davidson, and David Rittenhouse.

v. 8. Lives of Jonathan Edwards and David Brainerd.

v. 9. Lives of Baron Steuben, Sebastian Cabot, and William Eaton.

v. 10. Lives of Robert Fulton, Joseph Warren, Henry Hudson, and Father Marquette.

V. 11. Lives of Robert Cavelier de La Salle and Patrick Henry (1844)

V. 12. Lives of James Otis and James Oglethorpe (1847)

V. 13. Lives of John Sullivan, Jacob Leisler, Nathaniel Bacon and John Mason (1848)

V. 14. Lives of Roger Williams, Timothy Dwight and Count Pulaski (1847)

V. 15. Lives of Count Rumford, Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Samuel Gorton (1848)

V. 16. Lives of Ezra Stiles, John Fitch and Anne Hutchinson (1847)

V. 17. Lives of John Ribault, Sebastian Rale and William Palfrey (1848)

V. 18. Lives of Charles Lee and Joseph Reed (1848)

V. 19. Lives of Leonard Calvert, Samuel Ward and Thomas Posey (1846)

V. 20. Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the army of Revolution (1848)

V. 21. Life of Stephen Decatur, a commodore in the navy of the United States (1848)

V. 22. Lives of Edward Preble and William Penn (1847)

V. 23. Lives of Daniel Boone and Benjamin Lincoln (1847)

V. 24. Life of John Ledyard, the American traveller (1847)

V. 25. Lives of William Richardson Davie and Samuel Kirkland (1848).

Notes:

Vols. 11-25, published by C.C. Little and J. Brown, Boston, also numbered as v. 1-15, Second series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General index for the first series at end of v. 10.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 26889, 40278, 58637

Sabin 88980-81

Other Format:

Online version: Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Library of American biography.

OCLC:

2802241