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• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
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• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
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• Men I have known (T.Y. Crowell, 1897), by F. W. Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of eminent men, with other papers (Ticknor and Company, 1886), by Edwin Percy Whipple and C. A. Bartol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief biographies (Ticknor and Fields, 1861), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheridaniana; or, Anecdotes of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (H. Colburn, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amigos y maestros; contribución al estudio del espiritu humano á fines del siglo XIX. (F. Fé, 1897), by Pompeyo Gener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serie di biografie contemporanee (s.n.], 1853), by L. C. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living leaders of the world: comprising graphic biographies of the men and women of greatest eminence, influence, wealth, power, or fame. They who are leading the millions of mankind in the various departments of human activity, and who are now moulding the thought and shaping the destiny of the nations. Kings, queens, diplomats, statesmen ... etc. (H.C. Hudgins & Co., 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Öffentliche Charaktere (Hoffmann und Campe, 1835), by Karl Gutzkow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charaktere, Charakteristiken und vermischte Schriften. (A. Samter, 1848), by Alexander Jung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cassell's universal portrait gallery : a collection of portraits of celebrities, English and foreign with fac-simile autographs. (Cassell, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The biographical review of prominent men and women of the day ... (Gehman, 1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers of the nineteenth century. (T. F. Unwin, 1901), by Richard A. Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devi︠a︡tnadt︠s︡atyĭ vi︠e︡k : obzor nauki, tekhniki i politicheskikh sobytīĭ (Izd. P.P. Soĭkina, 1900), by M. M. Filippov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and times of John Calvin, the great reformer. (Whittaker and co., c 1849., 1849), by Paul Henry and Henry Stebbing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classic memoirs (Colonial Press, 1901), by Edward Everett Hale, Andrew Lang, and Edward Hyde Clarendon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Short life of Napoleon Bonaparte (McClure, 1895), by H. Garland, R. Barr, Ida M. Tarbell, Hamlin Garland, Robert Barr, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Edward Everett Hale, Robert Louis Stevenson, Herbert Spencer, and Robert Barr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living leaders of the world : comprising graphic biographies of the men and women of greatest eminence, influence, wealth, power, or fame ... (Hubbard Bros., 1889), by Lew Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• De vita Constantini. (G. Nauckium, 1830), by Eusebius of Caesarea, Friedrich Adolph Heinichen, and F. A. Heinichen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Friends' library : comprising journals, doctrinal treatises, and other writings of members of the religious Society of Friends (Printed by Joseph Rakestraw for the editors, 1837), by Thomas Evans and William Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life and gospel labors of the late Daniel Wheeler : a minister of the Society of Friends. (Harvey and Darton :, 1842), by Daniel Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical notices of Mr. Charles Hayward, Jr., and Mr. Samuel T. Hildreth. (Metcalf, Torry, and Ballou, 1839), by Samuel Tenney Hildreth and Charles Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern portrait gallery. (Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldiers of the Victorian age. (Chapman, 1880), by Charles Rathbone Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personajes célebres del siglo XIX, por uno que no lo es. (F. Suarez, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zami︠e︡chatelʹnyi︠a︡ i zagadochnyi︠a︡ lichnosti XVIII i XIX stoli︠e︡tīi. (A.S. Suvorin, 1884), by E. P. Karnovich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent persons, biographies reprinted from the Times. (Macmillan, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous boys and how they became great men. (W.A. Townsend, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notices historiques : études d'histoire contemporaine (Hachette, 1907), by Georges Picot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of many men and of some women: being personal recollections of emperors, kings, queens, princes, presidents, statesmen, authors, and artists, at home and abroad, during the last thirty years. (Harper, 1874), by Maunsell B. Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life and religious experience of John Kendall : to which are added, letters written on various occasions, to his friends and acquaintance; and other pieces. (W. Phillips, 1815), by John Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the religious experience and gospel labours of Thomas Rutter. (Printed and sold by W.Phillips, 1803), by Rutter,Thomas, 1741?-1800 and Hester Rutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Saint Neot, the oldest of all the brothers to King Alfred (J.J. Stockdale, 1809), by John Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Deborah Backhouse : of York, who died the tenth of the twelth month, 1827, aged thirty-four years. (Printed by W. Alexander, 1828), by James Backhouse and W. Alexander & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical memoir of Richard Jordan, a minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends; late of Newton, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, North America. (Printed & sold by W. Alexander & son, 1828), by Society of Friends (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the life and writings of S. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons and martyr intended to illustrate the doctrine, discipline, practices, and history of the church, and the tenets and practices of the gnostic heretics, during the second century (Rivington, 1841), by James Beaven (page images at HathiTrust)
• The men of the time in 1852, or, sketches of living notables ... (David Bogue, printed by G. Barclay, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches of men and women who have ... benefited their fellow-creatures. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1861), by Matthew Davenport Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short memoir of Andrew Underhill, who departed this life, at Philadelphia, on the eighteenth of the first month, 1823, in the twenty-sixth year of his age. (printed and sold by W. Alexander and Son, 1826), by Andrew Underhill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographies of great and famous men and women of the present period ... First series. (R.S. Cartwright, 1881), by R. M. Hayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galería universal de biografías y retratos de los personajes más distinguidos... desde 1846 hasta nuestros dias, con un resumen histórico, geográfico, estadístico, industrial y político de cada nación. Obra redactada por conocidos escritores españoles y extranjeros. (Elizalde, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galerie historique et critique du dix-neuvième siècle (Au bureau de la Galerie historique, 1856), by Henry Lauzac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of eminent men : with other papers (Houghton, Mifflin, 1892), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Dehmel (Gose & Tetzlaff, 1902), by Julius Bab, Ferdinand Gregori, Hans Landsberg, Felix Poppenberg, Theodor Adolf Poppe, and Tscherkoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eminent persons; biographies reprinted from the Times, 1870-1879. (London, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vite e ritratti di venticinque uomini illustri. (Tipografia della Minerva, 1822), by Nicolò Bettoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The international portrait gallery. (Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1879), by Petter Cassel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent persons. Biographies reprinted from the Times. (Macmillan, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haphazard personalities chiefly of noted Americans (Lee and Shepard;, 1886), by Charles Lanman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quatre hommes Skobeleff, Brooke, Grant, Riel (H. Charles-Lavauzelle, 1890), by A. Garçon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographisches lexikon hervorragender ärzte des neunzehnten jahrhunderts. Mit einer historischen einleitung. (Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1901), by J. Pagel (page images at HathiTrust)
• True stories of heroic lives : stirring tales of courage and devotion of men and women of the Nineteenth Century... (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Napoleon (Napoleon Society, 1895), by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne and Ramsay Weston Phipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits and principles of the world's great men and women with practical lessons on successful life by over fifty leading thinkers. (The King-Richardson co., 1898), by William C. King and C. H. Parkhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinet von biographischen Gemälden der merkwürdigsten Personen aus der neuesten Zeitgeschichte (Bei Friedrich Maurer, 1810), by Karl Stein and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treasury of modern biography : a gallery of literary sketches of eminent men and women of the nineteenth century (W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1892), by Robert Cochrane, Cynthia Morgan St. John, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographies of working men (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1884), by Grant Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esquisses et portraits (Léautey, 1845), by Louis François Sosthènes de La Rochefoucauld Doudeauville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits historiques. (Monnerat, 1883), by H. Draussin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The biographical review of prominent men and women of the day : with biographical sketches and reminiscences to which is added a birdseye view of the history of our republic, and much other valuable information (Lewis, 1889), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwölf Charakterbilder aus der neueren Geschichte (C. H. Beck, 1913), by Karl Theodor von Heigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tieni varrella tapaamia (Kustannusosakeyhtiö Rosma, 1920), by Maikki Friberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leaders of men; types and principles of success, as illustrated in the lives of prominent Canadian and American men of the present day. (King-Richardson, 1904), by Henry W. Ruoff and R. Campbell Tibb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tieni varrella tapaamia 2 (in Finnish), by Maikki Friberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tieni varrella tapaamia 1 (in Finnish), by Maikki Friberg (Gutenberg ebook)

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