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Humboldt (Alex. de), Essai Politique sur la Nouvelle Espagne. (Voyage.) Venegas' Natural and Civil History of California, translated from the Spanish. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1759.

Cardenas (G. de), Ensayo por la Historia de la Florida. Folio. Madrid, 1723.

History of the British Settlements in America. (Mod. Univ. Hist. Vols. XXXV., XXXVI., and XXXVII.)

Hinton's (J. H.) History and Topography of the United States of North America, from the earliest period to the present time. Proof plates. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1830-32.

Adair's (James) History of the American Indians, particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. 4to. London, 1775.

Washington's (George) Life by John Marshall, corrected under the inspection of the Hon. B. Washington. With a compendious view of the colonies planted by the English in North America. 5 vols. 8vo. London, 1804-7.

Franklin's (Benj.) Public Negotiations and American Politics. (Works, Vols. IV. and V.)

Witherspoon's (John) Speeches in Congress, &c. (Works, Vol. IX.) Jefferson's (President, Thos.) Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers, from the original MSS.; edited by Thos. Jefferson Randolph. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1829.

Stedman's (C.) History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1794.

Smith's (Capt. John) Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Islands; with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours, from their first beginning, 1584. Folio. The Hardwicke copy, with the rare port. of the Duchess of Richmond, by Passe. London, 1624.

Neal's (Daniel) History of New England; containing an account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of that country to 1700. To which is added, their character, ecclesiastical discipline, and municipal laws. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1720.

Macgregor's (John) British America. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1832. Catesby's (M.) Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. (Nat. Hist.)

History of the West India Islands.

History of the West India Islands. (Mod. Univ. Hist. Vols. XXXVI. and XXXVIII.)

Edward's (Bryan) History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies; with continuation to the present time. 5 vols. 8vo. Maps and plates in 4to. London, 1819.

[Rochefort (M. de)], Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amérique. 4to. Rotterdam, 1665.

Hughes's (G.) Barbadoes. (Nat. Hist.)

Poyer's (John) History of Barbadoes, from the discovery of the Island in 1605 to 1801. 4to. London, 1808.

Histoire de l'Ile de S. Domingue, depuis l'époque de sa découverte jusqu'en 1818. 8vo. Paris, 1819.

Long's (Edw.) History of Jamaica; or, a general survey of the ancient and modern state of that island, with reflections on its situation, settlements, inhabitants, climate, laws, government, &c. 3 vols. 4to. London, 1774.

Dallas's (R. C.) History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone. With a succinct history of the Island of Jamaica, and its state for the last ten years. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1803.

Fowler's (John) Account of the Colony of Tobago. 8vo. London, 1774. Smith's (W.) History of Nevis, &c. (Nat. Hist.)

SECT. VI.-BIOGRAPHICAL AND MONUMENTAL

HISTORY.

Biographical History.

General Biography.

Moreri (Louis), le Grand Dictionnaire Historique; ou, le mélange curieux de l'histoire, sacrée et prophane: nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on a refondu des supplémens de M. l'Abbé Gouget; le tout corrigée et augmentée par M. Drouet. 10 vols. folio. Paris, 1759. A General Dictionary, historical and critical, including that of Bayle; by J. P. Bernard, T. Birch, J. Lockman, and other hands. The articles relating to oriental history by Geo. Sale. 10 vols. folio. London, 1734-41.

Chaufepié (J. G. de), Nouveau Dictionnaire, historique et critique, pour servir de supplément à celui de Bayle. 4 vols. folio. Amsterdam, 1750-56.

Bayle.-Marchand (Pr.), Remarques Critiques sur le Dictionnaire de Bayle. 2 vols. in one, folio. Paris, 1748–52.

The General Biographical Dictionary; containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation, particularly the British and Irish, from the earliest to the present time: revised and enlarged by Alex. Chalmers. 32 vols. London, 1812-17.

General Biography; or, lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons, by J. Aikin, W. Enfield, Nicholson, T. Morgan, and W. Johnston. 10 vols. 4to. London, 1799–1815.

Chaudon (L. M.) et F. A. Delandine, Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique; ou, histoire abrégé de tous les hommes qui se sont fait un nom par des talens, &c.: avec des tables chronologiques, pour réduire en corps d'histoire les articles répandus dans ce Dictionnaire. 13 vols. 8vo. Caen et Lyon, 1804.

Galerie Historique des Hommes les plus célèbres de tous siècles et de toutes les nations; contenant leurs portraits, gravés au trait, avec l'abrégé de leurs vies, et des observations sur leurs caractères, ou sur leurs ouvrages, par une Société de Gens de Lettres. Publiée par Landon. 13 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1805-11.

[Barbier], Examen Critique et Complément des Dictionnaires Historiques les plus repandus, depuis le Dictionnaire de Moreri jusqu'à la Biographie Universelle inclusivement, Vol. I. A to F. 8vo. Paris, 1820. Biographium Fœmineum; or, memoirs of the most illustrious ladies of all ages and nations. 2 vols. small 8vo. London, 1767.

[Heywood's (Thos.)] Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine of the most worthy Women of the world-three Jewes, three Gentiles, and three Christians. 4to. London, 1640.

Ecclesiastical Biography.

See also History of the Christian Religion, and Lives of the Saints, Popes, &c. page 64.

Gilpin's (W.) Lives of the Reformers. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1809. Middleton's (Erasmus) Evangelical Biography; or, an historical account

of the lives and deaths of the most eminent authors or preachers, both British and foreign, in the several denominations of Protestants. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1816.

Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography. (English Ecclesiastical History.)

Ancient Biography.

Lempriere's (J.) Classical Dictionary; containing an account of all the persons mentioned in ancient authors. (Antiquities.)

Plutarch's Lives. (Classics.)

Seran de la Tour's (Abbé) Life of Scipio Africanus and of Epaminondas, intended as a supplement to Plutarch's Lives; with notes and observations on the battle of Zama, and on the principal battles of Epaminondas, by M. de Folard: with a dissertation on the distinction between a great and an illustrious or eminent man, by the Abbé St. Pierre. Translated by R. Parry. 2 vols. in one, 8vo. London, 1787.

C. Nepotis Vitæ Imperatorum. (Classics.)

Suetonii Vitæ XV. Cæsarum. (Classics.)

Diogenis Laertii Vitæ Philosophorum. (Classics.)

Berwick's (Edward) Lives of Marcus Valerius, Messala Corninus, and Titus Pomponius Atticus; with notes and illustrations. To which is added, an account of the families of the first five Cæsars. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1813.

Berwick's (E.) Lives of Caius Asinus Pollio, Marcus Terentius Varro, and Cneius Cornelius Gallus; with notes and illustrations. 8vo. London, 1814.

Modern Biography.

BRITISH BIOGRAPHY.

Biographia Britannica; or, the lives of the most eminent persons of Great Britain and Ireland. 6 vols. in 7, folio. Lond. 1744-66. Biographia Britannica; with corrections and additions by Andrew Kippis and others. Vols. I. to V., A to Fas. Folio. London, 1778–93. Wilford's (John) Memorials and Characters; together with the lives of divers worthy and eminent persons, natives of Great Britain, from 1600 to 1740. Folio. London, 1741.

Fuller's (Thos.) History of the Worthies of England; with notes by John Nichols. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1811.

Winstanley's (Will.) England's Worthies; select lives of the most eminent persons of the English nation, from Constantine the Great to the present time. 8vo. London, 1684.

Walpole's Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors. (Literary History.) Lloyd's (David) State Worthies; or, the statesmen and favourites of England, from the Reformation to the Revolution: with the characters of the kings and queens during that period, by Ch. Whitworth. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1766.

Macdiarmid's (John) Lives of British Statesmen. 4to. Lond. 1807. Wood's (Anthony) Athena Oxonienses: an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford; to which are added, the Fasti, or annals of the said university with additions and a continuation by Philip Bliss. 5 vols. 4to. London, 1813-20.

Aubrey's (John) Lives of eminent Men. (Letters from the Bodleian Collection, Vol. III.)

Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors.

(Literary History.)

Biographical Memoirs of eminent Persons of the 18th century. (Nichols's Literary Anecdotes.)

Ballard's (George) Lives of several Ladies of Great Britain who have been celebrated for their writings, or skill in the learned languages, &c. 4to. Oxford, 1752.

Memoirs of eminently Pious Women of the British Empire, by [Thos. Gibbons, Geo. Jerment, and] Samuel Burder. 3 vols. 8vo, por

traits. London, 1815.

Charnock's Biographia Navalis. (Eng. Naval History.)

Campbell's (A.) Lives of the Admirals. (Eng. Naval History.)

Noble's (Mark) Lives of Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants-at-Arms, since Richard III. (College of Arms.)

Johnson's (Sam.) Lives of the English Poets. (Works, Vols. IX. to XI., and Chalmers's British Poets.)

Walker's (J. C.) Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards. (Irish Poetry.)

Irving's (David) Lives of the Scottish Poets; with preliminary dissertations on the literary history of Scotland, and the early Scottish drama. 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1804.

Scott's (Sir W.) Biographical and Critical Notices of eminent Novelists. (Misc. Works, Vols. III. and IV.)

Baker's Biographia Dramatica. (Drama.)

Johnson's (Capt. Ch.) Lives and Adventures of Highwaymen, &c. &c. from 1399 to 1733. Folio, best edition. London, 1736.

Walton's (Isaak) Lives of Dr. J. Donne, Sir H. Wotton, Mr. R. Hooker, Geo. Herbert, and Dr. Robt. Saunderson; with index and illustrative notes. Plates, small 8vo. London, J. Major, 1825. Ward's (John) Lives of the Professors of Gresham College; with the life of the founder, Sir Th. Gresham. Folio. London, 1740.

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Churton's (Ralph) Lives of William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, and Sir Richard Sutton, Knt., founders of Brasennose College; with an appendix of letters and papers never before printed. 8vo. Oxford, 1800.

Aikin's (John) Lives of John Selden and Abp. Usher; with notices of the principal men of letters with whom they were connected. 8vo. London, 1812.

Lives of those eminent Antiquaries, John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony à Wood, from original papers; in which are inserted memoirs relating to many eminent persons and various parts of literature. [By W. Huddesford, with the assistance of Dr. Ducarel, Mr. Warton, &c.] 2 vols. 8vo. Oxford, 1772.

Johnson's (Samuel) Lives of eminent Persons, [viz. Blake, Sir F. Drake, Sydenham, Cheynell, Cave, Browne, and Ascham.] (Works, Vol. XII.) Prince's (John) Worthies of Devon; wherein the lives and fortunes of the most famous divines, statesmen, &c. of that province are memorized. 4to. London, 1810.

Chambers's (John) Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire. 8vo. Worcester, 1820.

Zouch's (Thos.) Lives of John Lord Lonsdale, Dean Sudbury, Sir G. Wheeler, and Sketches of Yorkshire Biography. (Works, Vol. II.) Ryan's (Rich.) Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1819.

FOREIGN BIOGRAPHY.

Greswell's (W. P.) Memoirs of Politianus, Picus of Mirandula, Sannazarius, Bembus, Francastorius, Flaminius, and the Amalthæi; with notes and observations concerning other literary characters of the 16th and 17th centuries. 8vo. Manchester, 1805.

Johnson's (Samuel) Lives of sundry eminent Persons [viz. Paolo Sarpi, Boerhaave, Barretier, Morin, Burman, and the King of Prussia]. (Works, Vol. XII.)

Moore's (George) Lives of the Cardinal Alberoni, the Duc de Ripperda, and the Marquis of Pombal. (Spanish History.)

Perrault (M.), les Hommes Illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle; avec leurs portraits. Including the suppressed portraits of Pascal and Arnauld. 2 vols. in one, folio. Paris, 1696-1700. Biographie Moderne: Lives of remarkable Characters who have distinguished themselves from the commencement of the French Revolution to the present time. 3 vols. 8vo. London, 1811.

LIVES OF ARTISTS.

See History of the Fine Arts, Painting, and Engraving.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES.

[Seward's (W.)] Anecdotes of distinguished Persons, chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries; with Supplement. 5 vols. 8vo. London, 1795-97.

[Seward's (W.)] Biographiana. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1790.

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