Illustrated school history of the United States and the adjacent parts of America: from the earliest discoveries to the present time..

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1877. Reprint. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling. Top of spine frayed.. 516, xxv, [14] p. : ill., maps; 19 cm. Footnotes. Chronological Record. Title continues: "Embracing a full account of the aborigines; biographical notices of distinguished men; numerous maps, plans of battlefields, and pictorial illustrations; and other features calculated to give our youth correct ideas of their country's past and present, and a taste for general historical reading. The author was George Payn Quackenbos who lived from 1826 to 1881. From an on-line posting: "QUACKENBOS, George Payn, educator, was born in New York city, Sept. 4. 1826; son of Dr. George Clinton and Catharine (Payn) Quackenbos. He was graduated at Columbia, A.B., in 1843; married in 1846, Louise, daughter of Alexander and Mary Duncan of Forres, Scotland; studied law, and became principal of the Henry Street Grammar school, 1847, and of the Collegiate school, N.Y., 1855. He was editor of the Literary American in New York city, 1848-50. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Wesleyan university in 1863. He edited Spiers's French Dictionary in 1850, and was the author of many school books, including: First Lessons in Composition (1851); Advanced Course in Rhetoric and Composition (1854); School History of the United States (ISol); Natural Philosophy (ISoQ); A Series of English Grammars (1862-64); A Series of Arithmetics (1863-74); Language Lessons (1876); American History (1877), and Appleton's Elementary and Higher Geographies (1880-81). He died in New London, N.H., July 24, 1881. Source: Biographical dictionary of America (1906)"