Name: Peter Parley's Geography for Beginners : with eighteen maps and one hundred and fifty engravings

Barcode: 7668

Image Number: 7668

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/7668.0001

Author: Goodrich, Samuel Griswold, 1793-1860

Publishing Location: New York

Notes: Title page verso: "Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry." Wood-engravings variously signed by "JC;" William Howland; Watson [i.e. John W. Watson?]; and "H." "The design of the author is to render this work a pleasing guide through the early stages of geographical study."--Suggestions to teachers, p. [4]. "It is now about fifteen years since 'Parley's method of telling about geography to children' was first given to the public. ... (T)he author has been careful, in remodeling the work ... and in adapting it more carefully to the present wants of schools."--Preface, p. [3]. Includes questions for study.

Date Produced: 1850

Language: English

Dimensions: Height: 16

Physical Description: 1 book: 162 pages, 2 leaves of plates, illustrated, maps

LC Call Number: G125.G62 1850

OCLC: 187479155

Accession Number: OS-1850-8

Donor: Osher