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Lessons on Shells, as given in a Pestalozzian school, at Cheam, Surrey
de (MAYO, Charles, and Elizabeth Mayo); Mary Florida Peale and Lewis Bonaventure Peale
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Peter Hill, 94 Broadway, 1833. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. 12mo. vi, [7-9] 10-218, [12]pp., 10 lithographic plates. Early American bookplate on the front pastedown: "Florida Peale. No. 196 Locust street, above 12th, Philadelphia" and contemporary signature in ink on the front free endpaper: "Lewis Peale". Two later ownership names in ink on the front free endpaper. Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over boards. The spine-back is partially worn away, joints are split, the upper right corner of the front board is clipped, good. One of two influential books by the educational reformer Elizabeth Mayo. She joined her brother Charles at Epsom in 1822, and then at Cheam, where they instructed boys according to the principles of Pestalozzi. Contains ten fine lithographic plates of shells "drawn from nature." A notable copy from the library of Mary Florida Peale and Lewis Bonaventure Peale, both members of the Charles Wilson Peale family of Philadelphia.
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- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 395843
- Título
- Lessons on Shells, as given in a Pestalozzian school, at Cheam, Surrey
- Autor
- (MAYO, Charles, and Elizabeth Mayo); Mary Florida Peale and Lewis Bonaventure Peale
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Peter Hill, 94 Broadway
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1833
- Palabras clave
- Philadelphia, Nature, Science, BookCollecting
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Book Collecting;
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
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