Maturin Murray Ballou

The Story of Malta. Maturin Murray Ballou

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Story of Malta. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Ballou, Maturin Murray; 1893. ix. 318 p.; 8 . 10136.c.24. Contributor Bio:  Ballou, Maturin Murray Maturin Murray Ballou (April 14, 1820 - March 27, 1895) was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded Gleason's Pictorial, was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe, and wrote numerous travel books and works of popular fiction. Selected Non-fiction Books Include: Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou. Boston: A. Tompkins, 1852. Life story of Hosea Ballou: for the young. Boston: Tompkins, 1854. Treasury of thought. forming an encyclopaedia of quotations from ancient and modern authors. Boston, J. R. Osgood and Co., 1872. Pearls of thought. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1881. Notable thoughts about women: a literary mosaic. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Edge-tools of speech. Boston, Ticknor and Co., 1886. Genius in sunshine and shadow. Boston, Ticknor and Co., 1887. Travel Books include: Will Cuba come into the Union? History of Cuba; or, notes of a traveller in the tropics.: Being a political, historical, and statistical account of the island, from its first discovery, to the present time. Boston, Mass.: Published by Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1854. History of Cuba, or, Notes of a traveller in the tropics being a political, historical, and statistical account of the island, from its first discovery to the present time. Boston: New York: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854.