Geography for children [electronic resource] : 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, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Division, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, by Way of Question and Answer: with a new general map of the world, and also a List of the Maps necessary for Children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The fourteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the Use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful Study in their Youth. And to this edition is now added, a table of the latitude and longitude of the most remarkable places mentioned in this Work. As also a Print of the Orrery.
1783
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Geography for children [electronic resource] : 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, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Division, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, by Way of Question and Answer: with a new general map of the world, and also a List of the Maps necessary for Children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The fourteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the Use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful Study in their Youth. And to this edition is now added, a table of the latitude and longitude of the most remarkable places mentioned in this Work. As also a Print of the Orrery.
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Géographie des enfans. English
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London : printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1783]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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Pp.viii,5-151,[5]p.,plates : maps ; 12⁰.
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With two final advertisement leaves.
Price from imprint: price bound in Sheep 1s. 6d. in Calf, 2s.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Graduate School of Education Gutman.
Price from imprint: price bound in Sheep 1s. 6d. in Calf, 2s.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Graduate School of Education Gutman.
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Roscoe, J212 (1)
English Short Title Catalog, N7091.
English Short Title Catalog, N7091.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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