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Conversations on common things, or, Guide to knowledge : with questions : for the use of schools and families
- Title
- Conversations on common things, or, Guide to knowledge : with questions : for the use of schools and families / by a teacher.
- Author
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.
- Publication
- Boston : Munroe and Francis ; New-York : Charles S. Francis, 1826.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Permit needed | Schlosser 405 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Description
- 288 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill.; 15 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Conversions on common things.
- Guide to knowledge.
- Subject
- Note
- "Conversation III ... Mother, of what is paper made?": p. 31-39; "You must further know that the natives of the Sandwich, and other of the Pacific Islands manufacture cloth from the bark of a tree, called the paper mulberry": p. 159.
- "The first [question] is about tobacco ... Tobacco is an Indian plant ...": p. 133-134.
- Frontispiece engraved by David C. Johnston.
- Indexed In (note)
- Shoemaker
- Call Number
- Schlosser 405
- OCLC
- NYPG90-B89695
- Author
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.
- Title
- Conversations on common things, or, Guide to knowledge : with questions : for the use of schools and families / by a teacher.
- Imprint
- Boston : Munroe and Francis ; New-York : Charles S. Francis, 1826.
- Edition
- 2nd ed., rev. and corr.
- Indexed In:
- Shoemaker 24356
- Local Note
- Schlosser Coll. copy imperfect; frontispiece and p. [1-5] wanting. Title page information transcribed from Shoemaker; other details from RLIN/MAAR record. Possibly a later ed. (cf. previous note).
- Added Title
- Conversions on common things.Guide to knowledge.
- Research Call Number
- Schlosser 405