Nathan Covington Brooks (August 12, 1809 – October 6, 1898) was an American educator, historian, and poet. Born in West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, Brooks grew up to become the first principal of Baltimore City College, the third oldest public high school in the United States, and the only president of the Baltimore Female College, the first institution of higher education for women in Maryland. He also was the owner of the literary magazine The American Museum in which he published several works of the famed poet Edgar Allan Poe, and the author of several textbooks on classical literature. Brooks died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (From Wikipedia)
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Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898, ed.: The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, Elucidated by an Analysis and Explanation of the Fables (fifth edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr, 1860), by Ovid (page images at HathiTrust)
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Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The Amethyst, an annual of literature. (William A. Francis, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Biblical illustrations. (W. Marshall;, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Collectanea evangelica; or, Selections from the Greek Testament, consisting of portions of the four Gospels arranged in chronological order, forming a connected history of the principal events in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. With notes and a lexicon. To be used in connection with the author's "Greek lessons" (A. S. Barnes & co.;, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Collectanea evangelica : or, selections from the Greek Testament, consisting of portions of the four Gospels, arranged in chronological order, forming a connected history of the principal events in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, with notes and a lexicon (Baltimore, Md. : Cushing & Brother, 1847., 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: A complete history of the Mexican war (Grigg, Elliot & co.;, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: A complete history of the Mexican war. (Grigg, Elliot & Co., 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: A complete history of the Mexican War: its causes, conduct, and consequences: comprising an account of the various military and naval operations, from its commencement to the treaty of peace. (Grigg, Elliot;, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Epitome historiæ sacræ (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1875), also by C. F. L'Homond (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Epitome historiae sacrae : Auctore L'Homond (Arthur Hinds, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: First lessons in Greek: (Sorin and Ball, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: First lessons in Greek : a series of exercises, analytical and synthetical, in Greek syntax : designed as an introduction to the study of the Greek language (H.W. Derby & Co., 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: First six books of the Aeneid of Virgil with lexicon, notes, metrical index and maps. (Hinds & Noble, 1891), also by Virgil (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The history of the church, a poem: (Pub. by the Society, 1841), also by Diagnothian Literary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The importance of classical studies. (Sorin and Ball: Baltimore, Parsons, Preston and Kurtz, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The literary amaranth (Kay and brother;, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The Literary amaranth : or prose and poetry (Kay and Brother ;, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Manual of devotion; or, Religious exercises for the morning and evening of each day in the month, for the use of schools and private families (A.S. Barnes & co. ;, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Manual of devotion, or, Religious exercises for the morning and evening of each day in the month : for the use of schools and private families (New York : A.S. Barnes & Co. ; Cincinnati : H.W. Derby & Co., 1855., 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Manual of devotion; religious exercises for the morning and evening of each day in the month, for the use of schools and private families. (A.S. Barnes, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Matter, instinct, mind : their nature and relations. (Woods & Crane, printers, 1843), also by YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) and Baltimore Maryland institute of education (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso (A. S. Barnes & co.;, 1857), also by Ovid (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso (Grigg, Elliot, & co., 1849), also by Ovid (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso; elucidated by an analysis and explanation of the fables, together with English notes, historical, mythological, and critical, and illustrated by pictorial embellishments; with a dictionary, giving the meaning of all the words with critical exactness (A. S. Barnes ;, 1850), also by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Passion Week; : containing prophesies and Gospel narratives of the sacred events, with poems, meditations and prayers; also the Ascension and Pentecost; together with an horology of the sacred Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. (James Hammond ..., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Sabbath-school manual, or religious exercises for the morning and evening of each Sabbath in the year : For the use of Sabbath-schools and private families (Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869., 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The School harmonist : comprising Psalm and hymn tunes in general use ; together with several tunes and chants, designed as an accompaniment to the Manual of devotion for schools (by N. C. Brooks, A.M.), and for the use of choirs, singing schools and private families (New York : A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1860., 1860), also by Andrew J. Cleaveland and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Scriptural anthology (W. Marshall & co.;, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Scriptural anthology; or, Biblical illustrations: designed as a Christmas and birth day present. (W. Marshall & co.;, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Scriptural anthology; or, Biblical illustrations: designed as a Christmas and birth day present. MDCCCXXXVII. (W. Marshall & Co.;, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Scripture manual : or Religious exercises for the morning and evening of each day in the month (Philadelphia : Hartley, 1887., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: The utility of classical studies : an address (Printed by John Murphy [for the Philomathaean Society, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg], 1840), also by Charles West Thomson and Gettysburg College. Philomathean Society (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Vitae virorum illustrium Americae, a Columbo ad Jacksonum: notis anglicis illustratae, necnon vocum omnium interpretatione instructae. (A.S. Barnes et Burr, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, N. C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898: Vollständige Geschichte des Kriegs mit Mexiko, der Ursachen, Führung und Folgen desselben; umfassend einen genauen Bericht der verschiedenen Militair-Operationen zu Land und See, von deren Beginne bis zu dem Friedensvertrage. Illustrirt und erläutert durch Landkarten, Schlachtpläne, Ansichten und Portraits. Nach dem englischen Originale deutsch bearb. (Hutchinson und Seebold, 1849), also by Carl Joseph Koch (page images at HathiTrust)
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