MORSE (Jedidiah).

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. ... Illustrated with a map of the World, and a map of North-A

Sixteenth edition; 16mo (172 x 102 mm); viii, 9-360pp, two folding engraved maps. Contemporary tree calf, gilt, red morocco label to spine; extremities slightly rubbed. Front end-papers and folding world map browned and wormed, sporadic light spotting throughout, interior otherwise good. Boston, Isaiah Thomas sr. & Ebenezer Turrell Andrews, 1813.

£250.00

Popular American pocket geography, the first of its kind published in the new republic, and much revised and reprinted to meet continuing demand from schools and parents. The book contains two folding maps, ‘A New Map of the World with the latest discoveries’ and ‘A Map of North America from the latest discoveries 1806.’

With near-contemporary ink ownership inscription to the ffep, “Narcissa Lincoln’s Book Taunton”. Narcissa Lincoln was born in 1830 in Taunton, Massachusetts.

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