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Scenes in Asia, : for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers.

Title: Scenes in Asia, : for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers. / by the Rev. Isaac Taylor, author of "Scenes in Europe.".
Author: Taylor, Isaac, 1759-1829.
Publication: Hartford : published by Silas Andrus, 1826.

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Description

vi, [1], 8-124 p., [28] leaves of plates, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map; 15 cm.

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Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – Connecticut – Hartford – 1826.

Note

Includes 84 engravings corresponding to numbered text. Introduction and conclusion in verse.
Plates engraved on copper.

Provenance (note)

Inscribed: In ink on upper free end leaf, "Presented to Mary Fox by her friend Justin Cotton. December 9, 1827." In ink on upper paste down, "George Kendall Presented to him by his Friend Miss Mary Fox." In ink on lower free end leaf, begins "Beautiful extract..." followed by a verse from the "Forget Me Not" 1827.

Binding (note)

Bound in quarter green leather with paper boards.

Call Number

*KH 1826 Taylor 11-318

OCLC

191257618

Author

Taylor, Isaac, 1759-1829.

Title

Scenes in Asia, : for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers. / by the Rev. Isaac Taylor, author of "Scenes in Europe.".

Imprint

Hartford : published by Silas Andrus, 1826. (New-York : Stereotyped by James Conner)

Provenance

Inscribed: In ink on upper free end leaf, "Presented to Mary Fox by her friend Justin Cotton. December 9, 1827." In ink on upper paste down, "George Kendall Presented to him by his Friend Miss Mary Fox." In ink on lower free end leaf, begins "Beautiful extract..." followed by a verse from the "Forget Me Not" 1827. NN

Binding

Bound in quarter green leather with paper boards. NN

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Andrus, Silas, 1789?-1861. Publisher

Conner, James, 1798- Stereotyper

Conner, James, 1794-1846. Printer

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KH 1826 Taylor 11-318

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