Elements of geography: containing a concise and comprehensive view of that useful science, as divided into, 1. astronomical 2. physical or natural 3. political geography. On a new plan. Adapted to the capacities of children and youth; and designed, from its cheapness, for reading and classical book in common schools, and as a useful winter evening's entertainment for young people in private families. Illustrated with a beautiful map of the United States, and a beautiful chart of the whole world. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Minister of the congregation in Charlestown, Massachusetts. [Three lines from Backus]
- Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
- Date:
- Feb. 1796
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Publication/Creation
Printed at Boston : by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews. Sold by them, at Faust's Statue, and by I. Thomas, in Worcester; also, in New York, by S. Campbell; in Philadelphia, by M. Carey; in Baltimore, by Thomas, Andrews and Butler; and by other booksellers, in different parts of the United States, Feb. 1796.
Physical description
xii,[1],14-143,[1]p., [2]folded leaves of plates : 2 maps ; 120.
Edition
Second edition corrected.
References note
ESTC W31849
Evans, 30826
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