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, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situations, Boundaries, Extent, Divisions, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, in the Form of Question And Answer: With a new general map of the world, the Spheres, and also a List of Maps necessary for Children. Translated from the French of Abbé Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The twenty-second 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 A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of the remarkable Places mentioned in this Work.

  • Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.
Date:
1800
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Géographie des enfans. English

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Shrewsbury : printed by Sandford and Maddocks, 1800.

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xii,154p.,plates : maps ; 120.

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ESTC T140009

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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