Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children
Published by Huntington and Savage, New York, 1843
- Used
Seller: ZH BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Fremont, CA, U.S.A.ZH BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
AbeBooks seller since August 18, 2010
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 45.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Early edition; 5 1/4 x 4 1/2; pp. [6], 9-120; pictorial card stock wraps and 1/4 calf, decorated and ruled in black; illustrated with 9 maps and 75 woodcuts; age-toning and wear along margins; occasional spotting; corners of leaves curling; small manuscript note to ffep; in good condition.Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793 - 1860), writing under the pseudonym Peter Parley, would write a series of educational works for children in order "to provide an alternative to the British biases of 19th-century schoolroom texts and the questionable morals of nursery rhymes.".
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children
- Author
- Parley, Peter (Goodrich, Samuel Griswold)
- Publisher
- Huntington and Savage, New York
- Publication year
- 1843
- Condition
- Good
- Seller catalogs
- Children
ZH BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Fremont, CA, U.S.A.
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