Geography for children : or a short and easy method of teaching and learning geography: designed principally for the use of schools. Where by Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Divisions, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons in the Form of Question and Answer: with a new general map of the world, the Spheres, and also a List of Maps necessary for Children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The nineteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the Use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful Study in their Youth. And a table of the latitude and longitude of the remarkable places mentioned in this Work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.

Standardized Title:

Géographie des enfans. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography--Juvenile literature.

Geography.

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii,154p.,plates ) map ;

Other Title:

Geography for children

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Johnston, and L. Newbery, 1795.

Notes:

Price from imprint: price, bound, 1s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Graduate School of Education Gutman.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N7057.

OCLC:

642221599