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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | A Geography For Schools, Upon a Plan Entirely New: Consisting of an Analytical Arrangement of All the Great Features of Nature, Particularly Adapted to an Atlas of Forty Luminous and Concise Maps, Wherein Every Important Article of Natural Geography, and the Chief Towns are Plainly and Distinctly Denoted By References Exactly Corresponding to the Analysis; Which Also Gives Tabular and Comprehensive Views of Statistical Geography, Dimensions, Altitudes, Population, &C &C Volcanoes, Cataracts: And Also of Ancient Geography, Upon The Same Plan |
| Date | 1822 |
| Record ID | 251656 |
| Collection Name | School Books |
| Reference | SB Geog. D796g 1822 Copy 1 |
| Theme | Nationality and Place Education and Didactic Texts |
| Library of Congress Subject | Geography Maps Quarter bindings Marbled papers Authors' presentation inscriptions Textbooks |
| Genre | Non-Fiction Pedagogical Texts |
| Author | Drury, Luke (1794-1845) |
| Publisher | Miller & Hutchens |
| Places | Rhode Island |
| Document Type | Atlas/Geography Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1822 Maps Quarter bindings (Binding) Marbled paper bindings (Binding) Intaglio prints Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) Textbooks |
| Size | 42 p., [43] leaves of plates : maps ; 26 cm |
| Page Numbers | 85 |
| Catalog Notes | "The method or arrangement [of the maps] has been some what in use for a few years, the plan of a very accomplished gentleman and scholar ... John Bailey, Esq. late of Brown University."--Introduction, p. [3]. Copyright 29 September 1821 by Luke Drury. Metal-engraved plates numbered I-XL. Includes several double plates. |
| American Antiquarian Society Copy Notes | American Antiquarian Society Copy 1 maps hand-colored. Edges tinted yellow. Inscribed: Presented by the author to the Teachers' Society in the City of New York, 1823 ; bought by Goold Brown, 1830. American Antiquarian Society Copy 2 is a collection of 32 disbound maps from the imprint. Some hand colored |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
| Catalog Record Note | Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |