conducted by James B. Longacre ... and James Herring ... under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Henry Perkins,
Date of Publication
1834-1839.
Physical Description
4 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Each volume has added engraved t.p. with dates: v.1: 1834; v. 2: 1835. An engraved portrait by any of a number of artists precedes each biographical essay.
Original issue has imprint: New York, M. Bancroft, 1834-1839.
Library has v. 3 only.
Contents
v. 1: George Washington, 1st President U.S. -- Martha Washington -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- Major-General Nathanael Greene -- Major-General Anthony Wayne -- Major-General William Moultrie -- Major General Israel Putnam -- Colonel Timothy Pickering -- Governor Isaac Shelby -- Governor Aaron Ogden -- John Marshall, LL.D., Chief Justice U.S. -- Edward Shippen, LL.D., Chief Justice of Pennsylvania -- Brigadier-General Jonathan Williams -- Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President U.S. -- Hon. Henry Clay, U.S. Senate -- Major-General Andrew Jackson, President U.S. -- Hon. Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate -- Hon. William Wirt -- Hon Lewis Cass, Secretary of War -- Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy -- Major-General Alexander Macomb -- Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, LL.D. -- Hon. Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senate -- Hon. Edward Livingston -- Hon. Louis M'Lane, Secretary of State -- Right Rev. William White, D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania -- Rev. Timothy Dwight. S.T.D. LL.D. -- Hon. Joel Barlow -- Colonel John Trumbull -- Gilbert Charles Stuart, Esq. -- Samuel Latham Mitchell, M.D., LL.D. -- Theodoric Romeyn Beck, M.D. Washington Irving, Esq. -- Catharine M. Sedgwick -- James Fenimore Cooper, Esq.
v. 2: Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S. -- Thomas Jefferson, 3d President U.S. -- John Hancock, President of Congress -- John Jay, President of Congress, Chief Justice U.S. -- Patrick Henry -- Major-General Joseph Warren -- Major-General Henry Knox -- Major-General Benjamin Lincoln -- Major-General David Wooster -- Major-General Philip Schuyler -- Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury -- Governor John E. Howard -- Brigadier-General Otho H. Williams -- Governor John Brooks -- Colonel Francis Barber -- John Barry, U.S. Navy -- Daniel Boon[!] -- David Rittenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S. -- David Humphreys, LL.D. -- Edward Preble, U.S. Navy -- Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Navy -- Major-General Jacob Brown -- Governor Dewitt Clinton -- Hon. James A. Bayard -- Hon. John C. Calhoun, Vice President U.S. -- Governor Robert Y. Hayne -- Hon. William Gaston -- Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury -- Mrs. Marcia Van Ness -- Noah Webster, LL.D. -- Caspar Wistar, M.D. -- David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S. -- James Kent, LL.D. -- Charles Ewing, LL.D., Chief Justice of New Jersy -- Governor George Wolf.
v. 3: James Madison, 4th President U.S. -- Mrs. Madison -- James Monroe, 5th President U.S. -- John Dickinson -- Francis Hopkinson -- Elias Boudinot -- Benjamin Rush, M.D. -- David Ramsay, M.D. -- Major-General Arthur St. Clair -- Major-General Lachlan M'Intosh -- Major-General Daniel Morgan -- Brigadier-General Francis Marion -- Brigadier-General Andrew Pickens -- Brigadier-General Henry Lee -- Brigadier-General William Augustine Washington -- Major-General Morgan Lewis -- Benjamin Tallmadge -- Governor James Jackson -- Governor William Richardson Davie -- Paul Jones, U.S. Navy -- Richard Dale, U.S. Navy -- William Bainbridge, U.S. Navy -- Stephen Decatur, U.S. Navy -- Fisher Ames -- Rufus King -- Stephen Van Rensselaer -- William Pinkney -- Lindley Murray -- Charles Brockden Brown -- Robert Fulton -- Joseph Story, LL.D. -- Major-General William Henry Harrison -- Martin Van Buren, Vice President U.S. -- Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy -- Felix Grundy, U.S. Senate.
"A monthly magazine, embracing every department of literature embellished with original engravings, and music arranged for the piano-forte, harp and guitar."
Description based on: Vol. 11 (May 1839); title from caption.
Lancaster County Historical Society has 1842 only.
Betrachtungen über das ganze Leiden Christi : im Oelgarten, vor dem geistlichen Gericht der Juden, vor dem weltlichen Gericht Pilati und Herodes, und auf dem Berge Golgatha : nach der Harmonischen Beschreibung der Evangelisten abgehandelt. Mit mehren Holzschnitten geziert und den nothigen Registern verseben. Als Anhang ist beigefügt, Betrachtungen der sieben letzten Worte des Gekreuzigten Jesu
Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the ninth day of October, Anno Dom. 1722 ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the twenty seventh day of June, 1727. Being the sixth session of this present Parliament
Printed by John Baskett ... and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills.,
Date of Publication
1727-1728.
Physical Description
42, 666, [2] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Each act constitutes a chapter; each chapter has a caption title, and most have a general t.p.
LHS copy imperfect: all chapters except 5 (second occurrence), 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21 wanting. Transcription of title from general t.p. prefixed to chapter 1.
The general t.p. for the second group of paging has the phrase: At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty third day of January, Anno Dom. 1727 ... being the first session of this present Parliament.
