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A Compendious System of Geography: Being A description of the Earth, And of the Manners, Customs, Religion, Government, Manufactures, Commerce and Curiosities of the Various Nations who Inhabit It. To which is added Plain direction for Constructing Maps, illustrated by Plates. With an Atlas. Intended as a Sequel to Willetts Easy Grammar of Geography. By Jacob Willetts, Author of Easy Grammar of Geography, The Scholar s Arithmetic, &c, &c. Poughkeepsie: Printed and Published by P. Potter, for himself, and for S. Potter & Co., 1819. 487 p + 1 p adverts. Full leather binding measures 7 x 4.5 , 12mo. In fair condition. Boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head of spine lacking with exposed binding; tail scuffed. Ex-library sticker at head of spine. Title label intact; spine shows signs of desiccation. Ex-library bookplate on front paste-down: "Library of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New-York". Old-hand ink marginalia on front end-page. Normal toning through text-block; regular age-staining. Text-block slightly rippled. Binding intact. Please see photos. Jacob Willetts (1785 - 1860) was educated at the Friends' boarding-school near Mechanic, and on his eighteenth birthday became head teacher there. About 1813 he settled on the island of Nantucket, where with his wife he conducted a flourishing school for many years but in 1824 they returned to Dutchess county and established a school near Mechanic, which they continued until 1852. He was an accomplished mathematician, and published text-books of geography, arithmetic, and bookkeeping, which were much used throughout the country. His wife, Deborah, born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1789; died near Mechanic, Dutchess co. New York, in 1880, was educated in the same school with Mr. Willetts, and married him in 1812. Her maiden name was Rogers, and she was a lineal descendant of the martyr of Smithfield. She was a skilful grammarian, and was often consulted on difficult questions by Goold Brown, who in the preface of his celebrated grammar acknowledged his indebtedness to her. RAREA1819ABFA - 10/19 FORN-TUB-0083-BB-2506-HKREV1008.
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