Geography for Children: 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 . Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy. The Twentieth Edition, Greatly augmented, and improved up to the Year 1799.

du Fresnoy (Nicolas Lenglet)

Published by London: Published and sold by all the Booksellers, and by Thomas Wilson and Robert Spence, Printers, 1799. Twentieth Edition.

About this Item

12mo. in sixes. 143pp. Full tree calf, spine ruled in gilt and titled in gilt on a red panel. Folding frontispiece map (a double globe), two further maps, and a folding plate of the Positions of the Sphere. Ownership signature on the inner front cover dated 1799, old pencil notes on the verso of the title and a rear blank, discoloration of end papers, mild cracking of hinges, a sound and very good copy. A translation of du Fresnoy's 1836 work "Géographie des enfans, ou, Méthode abrégée de la géographie, divisée par leçons." The first English edition recorded in Worldcat was published in 1837, Printed for Johnson and Newbery (who are also listed as publishers of the Twentieth Edition in 1799); this edition, printed in York by Wilson and Spence, is an uncommon issue. Quite a nice copy.

Seller Inventory # 57024

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geography for Children: 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 . Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy. The Twentieth Edition, Greatly augmented, and improved up to the Year 1799.
• Publisher: London: Published and sold by all the Booksellers, and by Thomas Wilson and Robert Spence, Printers, 1799. Twentieth Edition.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Books