MENTAL IMPROVEMENT: or the Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art. In a Series of Instructive Conversations
by WAKEFIELD, Priscilla
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson, 1819. Fourth American from the Fifth London Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo; 240 pages, full calf, top cover rehinged with cloth tape on the endpapers, head of spine and label chipped.
She was the first woman to write scientific books for children. "Would any child suppose, that the cloth of which her frock is made, is composed of the fibrous parts of a green plant; or ... that the transparent glass out of which she drinks, was once a heap of sand and ashes; ... The design of the following little work, is to excite the curiosity of young persons on those subjects, by furnishing information on a few of the most obvious." - Preface.
She was the first woman to write scientific books for children. "Would any child suppose, that the cloth of which her frock is made, is composed of the fibrous parts of a green plant; or ... that the transparent glass out of which she drinks, was once a heap of sand and ashes; ... The design of the following little work, is to excite the curiosity of young persons on those subjects, by furnishing information on a few of the most obvious." - Preface.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0011722
- Title
- MENTAL IMPROVEMENT:
- Author
- WAKEFIELD, Priscilla
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth American from the Fifth London Edition
- Publisher
- Benjamin Johnson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1819
- Keywords
- whales, salt, fishing, rubber, childrens
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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