LEMPRIERE'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, or, SKETCHES of the Lives of Celebrated Characters in Every Age and Nation. Embracing warriors, heros, poets, presidents, 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. To which is added a Dictionary of the Principal Divinities and Heros of Grecian and Roman Mythology, and notices of one hundred Eminent Living Individuals.

Publisher: D. F. Robinson & Co., Hartford, 1827. This must be the second edition as the first was done in 1826.

Description: Full mottle leather binding with gilt bands and red pastedown label on the spine. Frontis engraving shows 20 prominent men from Alexander to J. Q. Adams.

Condition: Good. corners, edges, covers and spine are rubbed from handling. Front spine hinge is starting to split and top of the spine is torn. Front endpaper has a Kalamazoo Theological Seminary bookplate. Pages are browned and foxed throughout, but are all readable and are all tight to the spine. Use the zoom feature to see details and condition.

Pages: 444

Size: 4.5" x 7.375"

Weight: 14 oz.

An extremely scarce copy of Lempriere's Biographical Dictionary.

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