Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Universal Geography. To which are Prefixed ELEMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY. For the Use of Schools and Academies in the United States of America.
by Morse, Jedidiah
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Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1814. Seventeenth Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 1 1/2 engraved maps. 16mo, 364pp., contemporary sheep, joints cracking, lacks half of the frontispiece world map; recently rebacked in leather with original spine patched back on..
This was the first geography written in the United States [ see Nietz, OLD TEXTBOOKS, p.196]. "The first American school geography and first American book describing the western country - Howes M842; see Sabin 50936; Buck 35]. A New Preface appears in this edition. The folding map of North America has a closed tear, and is from the 1806 edition. Michigan, Indiana & Illinois are still territories here. Altho Captains Lewis & Clark are mentioned on p. 74, the results of their expedition are essentially unknown here.
This was the first geography written in the United States [ see Nietz, OLD TEXTBOOKS, p.196]. "The first American school geography and first American book describing the western country - Howes M842; see Sabin 50936; Buck 35]. A New Preface appears in this edition. The folding map of North America has a closed tear, and is from the 1806 edition. Michigan, Indiana & Illinois are still territories here. Altho Captains Lewis & Clark are mentioned on p. 74, the results of their expedition are essentially unknown here.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
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- 0005855
- Title
- Geography Made Easy:
- Author
- Morse, Jedidiah
- Illustrator
- 1 1/2 engraved maps
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Seventeenth Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas & Andrews
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1814
- Keywords
- Americana, Geography, New Holland, New Guinea, Illinois, Kentucky, south America, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Old Northwest Territories, Africa, Asia, Canada, north america, Mexico, Michigan Territory, Indiana Territory, Illinois Territory, Lewis &a
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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