The New Universal Biographical Dictionary and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit; Containing Complete and Impartial Accounts of the Lives and Writings....
New York: Paul R. Johnson, 1808. Full leather. Volume four only [of a four-volume set], octavo size, 498 pp. What we would today likely have called a "biographical encyclopedia", this set presented short biographies of the "most eminent persons in every nation, but more particularly of Those who have signalized..... More