Lights and shadows of Asiatic history / by the author of Peter Parley's tales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860, author.

Contributor:

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Bradbury, Soden & Co., publisher.

Series:

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Parley's cabinet library ; vol. 9.

Parley's cabinet library ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Asia--History--Juvenile literature.

Asia.

Genre:

History.

Juvenile works.

Juvenile literature -- 1844.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Nightingale, Constance A. P. (former owner) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 320 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm.

Manufacture:

[Boston?] : Wm. A. Hall & Co., Printers, 12 Water Street.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bradbury, Soden & Co., MDCCCXLIV [1844]

Contents:

Early history of Asia

Babylon

Hindostan

Persia

Firdusi

Zoroaster and his doctrines

The retreat of the ten thousand Greeks

The destruction of Jerusalem

Palmyra

The Saracens

Haroun Al Raschid

The Turks

Mahmoud of Ghizni

Zingis Khan

Timour

Marco Polo

Adventures of Mendez Pinto

The fortunes of the family of Aias

Nadir Shah

Aurungzebe

British India

The Chinese

The Wahabees

Siberia

Father India, &c.

Malacca, &c.

Ceylon

Japan

Notes:

Added engraved title-page.

Leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Spine has raised bands with series and number stamped in gilt. Marbled lining papers.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy has label "The property of Constance A. P. Nightingale" pasted to front pastedown.

Cited in:

Checklist of American imprints, entry 44-2687

Other Format:

Online version: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Lights and shadows of Asiatic history.

OCLC:

512379