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ABBOTTS' ILl.u.s.tRATED HISTORIES.

HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES. By JACOB ABBOTT and JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. The Volumes of this Series are printed and bound uniformly, and contain numerous Ill.u.s.trations. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 per volume; Set in box, 32 vols., $32.00.

Cyrus the Great.

Darius the Great.

Xerxes.

Alexander the Great.

Romulus.

Hannibal.

Pyrrhus.

Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra.

Nero.

Alfred the Great.

William the Conqueror.

Richard I.

Richard II.

Richard III.

Margaret of Anjou.

Mary Queen of Scots.

Queen Elizabeth.

Charles I.

Charles II.

Hernando Cortez.

Henry IV.

Louis XIV.

Maria Antoinette.

Madame Roland.

Josephine.

Joseph Bonaparte.

Hortense.

Louis Philippe.

Genghis Khan.

King Philip.

Peter the Great.

For the convenience of buyers, these Histories have been divided into Six Series, as follows:

I.

_Founders of Empires._

CYRUS.

DARIUS.

XERXES.

ALEXANDER.

GENGHIS KHAN.

PETER THE GREAT.

II.

_Heroes of Roman History._

ROMULUS.

HANNIBAL.

PYRRHUS.

JULIUS CaeSAR.

NERO.

III.

_Earlier British Kings and Queens._