1801 Mary Wollstonecraft 1ed Eccentric Biography Ben Franklin Raleigh Joan Arc

1801 1^ed Eccentric Biography Ben Franklin Mary Wollstonecraft Raleigh Joan Arc

‘Eccentric Biography’ is an early 19^th-century encyclopedia-style work of fascinating historical figures, authors, dramatists, and thinkers from the history. This 1801 collection of biographical sketches features portrait engravings in addition to the biographies themselves. While this book covers hundreds of names, a few notable figures include:

• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ovid
• Nero
• Moliere
• Joan of Arc
• Benjamin Franklin
• Archimedes
• Jonathan Swift
• Daniel Defoe

Item number: #15485

Price: $750

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Eccentric biography, or, Sketches of remarkable characters, ancient and modern : including potentates … etc., the whole alphabetically arranged ; and forming a pleasing delineation of the singularity, whim, folly, caprice, etc. etc. of the human mind.

London : Printed by J. Cundee for Vernor and Hood, 1801. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [12], 348
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6in X 3.75in (15cm x 9.5cm)
• Rare and desirable

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