A Biographical, Historical and Chronological Dictionary:: Containing Accurate Accounts of the Lives, Characters, and Actions, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages and All Countries; : Including the Revolutions of States, and the Succession of Sovereign Princes |
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| Title | A Biographical, Historical and Chronological Dictionary:: Containing Accurate Accounts of the Lives, Characters, and Actions, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages and All Countries; : Including the Revolutions of States, and the Succession of Sovereign Princes Issue 153 of Stewart library |
| Author | John Watkins |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Richard Phillips, 1807 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 972 pages |
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