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Peter Parley's universal history, on the basis of geography : for the use of families : illustrated by maps and engravings. Vol. I[-II].

Accession number
PML 82392-93
Published
Boston : American Stationers' Company ; John B. Russell, 1837.
Notes
Edited by Samuel G. Goodrich. Cf. his Recollections of a lifetime (New York, 1856), v. 2, p. 541. Compiled by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne. See BAL.
Some wood-engravings variously signed by Alonzo Hartwell; "CNP" [i.e. Charles N. Parmelee?]; and John H. Hall. Some maps signed: Devereux.
Spine title: Parley's universal history.
Verso of t.p.: Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, printers to the University.
With questions for study.
Description
2 v. : ill., maps ; 18 cm
Provenance
Inscription: T.W. Nichols, R.C. Nichols, F.S. Nichols, 1839.
Binding
Salmon publisher's cloth. Upper and lower covers bear gilt stamp: B. Bradley [i.e. Benjamin Bradley?]. Benjamin Bradley was a Boston book binder.
Classification
Department