The Understanding Reader: Or Knowledge Before Oratory. Being a New Selection of Lessons, Suited to the Understanding and Capacities of Youth, and Designed for their Improvement.

Adams, Daniel

Published by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester

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The Understanding Reader: Or Knowledge Before Oratory. Being a New Selection of Lessons, Suited to the Understanding and Capacities of Youth, and Designed for their Improvement. By Daniel Adams and published in Worcester by Isaiah Thomas. Circa 1810. 227 pp. 6.75” x 4.5”. 12mo. Hardcover original wood boards. In fair condition, with losses to paper along edges and corners of boards. Cracking to hinges at front and rear. Some staining remnants present. Light markings. Text block as a whole generally bound well. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A rare copy of an early American textbook. Produced by Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), an American publisher and founder of the American Antiquarian Society who was the first to report on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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Title
The Understanding Reader: Or Knowledge Before Oratory. Being a New Selection of Lessons, Suited to the Understanding and Capacities of Youth, and Designed for their Improvement.
Author
Adams, Daniel
Publisher
Isaiah Thomas, Worcester
Condition
Fair
Binding
Hardcover
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Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore.

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