A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, Jewish, Heathen, Mahometan, and Christian, Ancient and Modern. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of the Present State of the World, as to Population, Religion, Toleration, Missions, etc. and the Articles in Which All Christian Denominations Agree. By Hannah Adams. Fourth Edition, with Corrections and Large Additions.

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Title A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, Jewish, Heathen, Mahometan, and Christian, Ancient and Modern. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of the Present State of the World, as to Population, Religion, Toleration, Missions, etc. and the Articles in Which All Christian Denominations Agree. By Hannah Adams. Fourth Edition, with Corrections and Large Additions.
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Signed Author By Hannah Adams.
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Pagination [4], 376
Date of Publication 1817
Edition Statement Fourth Edition, with Corrections and Large Additions.
Edition Number 4
Date of First Publication 1784
Imprint Published by James Eastburn and Company, at the literary rooms, corner of Broadway and Pine Street, N. York; and by Cummings and Hilliard, no. 1, Cornhill, Boston.
Colophon Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, at the University Press in Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright Statement District of New York, ss, Be it remembered, that on the 13th day of March, in the forty-first year of the independence of the United States of America, James Eastburn and Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:—"A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, Jewish, Heathen, Mahometan, and Christian, Ancient and Modern. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of the Present State of the World, as to Population, Religion, Toleration, Missions, etc. and the Articles in Which All Christian Denominations Agree. By Hannah Adams. Fourth Edition, with Corrections and Large Additions." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." Theron Rudd, Clerk of the Southern District of N. York.
Location of Printing New York US
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First published in 1784 with title: An alphabetical compendium of the various sects which have appeared in the world from the beginning of the Christian era to the present day (Evans 18319).
Copyright March 13, 1817 by James Eastburn and Co.
"Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, at the University Press in Cambridge, Mass."--verso of title page.
Dedicated to "Hon. John Adams, LL.D. formerly president of the United States."
Dictionary, p. [19]-324, printed in two columns.
"A brief sketch of the state of religion throughout the world, by Mr. T. Williams."--Appendix, p. [325]-365.
"Appendix to the fourth American edition."--p. [367]-376.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Rosenbach, A.S.W. American Jewish bibliography,
Includes bibliographical references.
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Adams, Hannah. A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, Jewish, Heathen, Mahometan, and Christian, Ancient and Modern. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of the Present State of the World, as to Population, Religion, Toleration, Missions, etc. and the Articles in Which All Christian Denominations Agree. By Hannah Adams. Fourth Edition, with Corrections and Large Additions.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16280, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16280. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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