A practical system of modern geography, or, A view of the present state of the world : simplified and adapted to the capacity of youth : containing numerous tables, exhibiting the divisions, settlement, population, extent, lakes, canals, and the various institutions of the United States and Europe, the different forms of government, prevailing religions, the latitutde and longitude of the principal places on the globe : embellished with numerous engravings of manners, customs, &c. : accompanied by a new and improved atlas

Alternate Title:

View of the present state of the world; Olney's geography

Name:

Olney, J. (Jesse), 1798-1872; Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885

Timespan:

1800-1870

Date:

1833

Identifier:

2020.12.01.00015; (OCoLC)ocn870643074; (OCoLC)8706430746106237; (PU)6106237-penndb-Voyager

Language:

English

Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy); Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Publisher:

Published by D.F. Robinson & Co., sold by all the principal Booksellers in the U. States

Subject:

Geography -- Textbooks -- 1800-1870; Geography -- Textbooks; Geography -- Juvenile literature; Geography; Manners and customs -- Juvenile literature; Manners and customs

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

vi pages, 7 unnumbered pages-288 pages : illustrations; 16 cm

Related Place:

United States -- Connecticut -- Hartford.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Wood engravings: frontispiece, illustrations, title vignette.; Frontispiece included in pagination and signed: B.; Some of the ills. are by John Warner Barber; cf. Hamilton, Amer. book illustrators, 367.; Spine title: Olney's geography.; Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, G125 .O52 1833

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)