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Sketches of human manners : delineated in stories intended to illustrate the characters, religion, and singular customs, of the inhabitants of different parts of the world / by Priscilla Wakefield.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 24353. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 24353.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Manufacture:
- [Philadelphia] : William Greer.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Johnson & Warner, 1811.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- The African negro
- Dorus and Euphrasia
- The Bramin
- The Indian widow
- Ali Bey
- The Chinese mandarine
- The patriot of Tezcuco
- The North American warrior
- The Russian peasant
- The Greenlanders
- The morse hunters
- The peasant of the Alps
- The British merchant
- The convict
- The faithful Spaniards.
- Notes:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 24353).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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