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Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography: Designed Principally for the Use of Schools. Whereby Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps .... Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy. The Twentieth Edition, Greatly augmented, and improved up to the Year 1799.
by du Fresnoy (Nicolas Lenglet)
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Published and sold by all the Booksellers, and by Thomas Wilson and Robert Spence, Printers, 1799. Twentieth Edition.. 12mo. in sixes. 143pp. Full tree calf, spine ruled in gilt and titled in gilt on a red panel. Folding frontispiece map (a double globe), two further maps, and a folding plate of the Positions of the Sphere. Ownership signature on the inner front cover dated 1799, old pencil notes on the verso of the title and a rear blank, discoloration of end papers, mild cracking of hinges, a sound and very good copy. A translation of du Fresnoy's 1836 work "Géographie des enfans, ou, Méthode abrégée de la géographie, divisée par leçons..." The first English edition recorded in Worldcat was published in 1837, Printed for Johnson and Newbery (who are also listed as publishers of the Twentieth Edition in 1799); this edition, printed in York by Wilson and Spence, is an uncommon issue. Quite a nice copy.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57024
- Title
- Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography: Designed Principally for the Use of Schools. Whereby Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps .... Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy. The Twentieth Edition, Greatly augmented, and improved up to the Year 1799.
- Author
- du Fresnoy (Nicolas Lenglet)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Published and sold by all the Booksellers, and by Thomas Wilson and Robert Spence, Printers, 1799. Twentieth Edition.
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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