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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 now 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.

Accession number
PML 87440
Creator
Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.
Published
London : Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard : And E. Newbery, at the the Corner of Ludgate-Street, 1795.
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
"First published in Paris in 1736" -- cf. Osborne Coll., p. 186.
Publisher's book-list on p. 143 and following page.
Translation of Geógraphie des enfans, cf. NUC pre-1956, 326:186, and BM 134:618.
Description
143 p. : frontispiece, folding map ; 18 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary calf binding.
Classification
Department