A system of modern geography : designed for the use of schools and academies : illustrated by 23 copper-plate maps, drawn and engraved expressly for this work from the latest authorities : embellished with numerous engravings / by S. Augustus Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868.

Contributor:

Wickersham, James Pyle, 1825-1891.

Series:

Mitchell's new intermediate geography.

Mitchell's new intermediate geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography--Textbooks.

Geography.

Pennsylvania--Geography--Textbooks.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gendall, Robert M. (donor)

Deatrick, John H. (autograph)

Lyttle, R. A. (inscription)

Spangler, Edna (inscription)

Physical Description:

126, 12 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : E.H. Butler & Co., 1888.

Notes:

"Pennsylvania edition"--Cover.

"A geography of Pennsylvania: designed for schools and intended to accompany Mitchell's new intermediate geography ... by J.P. Wickersham": P. 1-12 (second count).

Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Given to the Penn Libraries by Robert M. Gendall.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: p. 39-42 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy bound in original illustrated cloth boards.

Penn Libraries copy has autographs of John H. Deatrick and ms. inscription ("Prof R A Lyttle Teacher") on front free endpaper; maps chiefly hand-colored; sheet of paper with ms. map of South America on one side and ms. inscription ("Edna Spangler") on the other laid in.

Penn Libraries copy: p. 7-8 torn across lower portion of leaf; back free endpaper wanting.

Contains:

Geography of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

14195509