Lempriere's biographical dictionary, or, Sketches of the lives of celebrated characters in every age and nation : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemprière, John, 1765?-1824.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography--Dictionaries.

Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p., [1] leaf of plates ) ports. ;

Other Title:

Lempriere's biographical dictionary, or, Sketches of the lives of celebrated characters in every age and nation

Place of Publication:

Richmond, Va. : N. White, 1826.

Notes:

"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, 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."

Two columns to the page.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 40017.

OCLC:

11