The Philadelphia Vocabulary, English and Latin" Put into a New Method proper to acquaint the Learner with Things as well as pure Latin Words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the Use of Schools
by Greenwood, James
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Philadelphia: Carey and Co, 1787. 12mo. 165 x 100 mm., [ 6 ½ x 4 inches]. viii, 123 pp. Contemporary brown calf, joints cracked and reinforced with expert tissue repair; paper stock brown with age, three leaves with expert repair to tears, edges a bit fragile, yet a sound and attractive copy. Ownership inscription of Joseph Mathew Liber. `"First American edition of this popular textbook. . . The present edition is copied from the English version, first published in London about 1710, with the title The London Vocabulary." "The woodcuts on the title-page depicts Philadelphia on the left-hand side and London on the right. In the text there are 25 very crude woodcuts. First American edition of this popular textbook." Evans, American Bibliography 20398. Sabin , Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 28690 "school book with poor woodcuts". Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 177. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 116. (570).
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- The Philadelphia Vocabulary, English and Latin" Put into a New Method proper to acquaint the Learner with Things as well as pure Latin Words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the Use of Schools
- Author
- Greenwood, James
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- Used
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- Carey and Co
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1787
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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