Geography for children: or a short and easy method of teaching and learning geography: designed principally for the use of schools. Where by 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 Situation, 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 Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The nineteenth 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.
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1795
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Géographie des enfans. English

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London : printed for T. Johnston, and L. Newbery, 1795.

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

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ESTC N7057

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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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