• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: The rudiments of geography : being a concise description of the various kingdoms, states, empires, countries, and islands in the world: ; Together with their latitudes, longitudes, extent, boundaries, rivers, lakes, air, climate, soil, produce, manufactures, chief towns, population, religion, and learning. ; With an introduction explaining the astronomical part of geography. ; To which is added, a chronological table of the most important events which have happened from the creation of the world to the present day
  • Beteiligte: Hubbard, John [VerfasserIn]; Doolittle, Amos [StecherIn]
  • Erschienen: Walpole, N.H: Printed for Thomas & Thomas by Geo. W. Nichols, 1805
  • Erschienen in: Early American Imprints. Series II : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819
  • Ausgabe: Second edition, revised and corrected. [One line in Latin from Cicero]
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text); 1 map; 17 cm
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Chronology, Historical ; Commercial geography ; Geography
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  • Anmerkungen: "The following compendium of geography is intended entirely for the use of schools, and those persons who have not leisure to peruse a larger treatise. ... He has not followed the common method of teaching the elements of geography by question and answer, ... He has made it his study to exhibit to the reader, in as short and concise a manner as possible, all the most important objects of geography. ..."--Preface, p. [4]. Dated: Deerfield, Massachusetts, 16th Feb. 1803
    Map has caption "Map of the world with the latest discoveries[.] Engraved for Hubbard's Rudiments of geography." Signed: Doolittle [i.e., Amos Doolittle] sculp
    Shaw & Shoemaker, 8658