Format:
1 Online-Ressource (104, [4] p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausgabe Chester, Vt Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc 2004-2007 Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text Early American Imprints : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819 (Series II)
Note:
"A table of the sun's entrance into each sign of the zodiac."--p. [108]. - "An account of the origins of the names of some months of the year, and of the days of the week, now commonly used."--p. [105-107]. - "The plan itself is a borrowed one; and you must certainly recollect its model in one of your own little books, where ... you give a brief description of the several months ... What you have done for a child three or four years, I have attempted for young people from ten to fourteen. I have collected more circumstances, entered into some details of natural history, opened some general views of that grand system, the Economy of nature"--To Mrs. Barbauld ("Dear sister"), p. [5-6], signed by J. Aikin, and dated at Warrington, May, 20, 1784. - "The rural calendar" (in verse)--p. [85]-104. - Evans, 36782. - In variant bindings. - Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 620. - Samuel Wood & Sons published at 261 Pearl St., New York, between 1817 and 1835. Samuel S. Wood & Co. was located at 212 Market St., Baltimore, between 1818 and at least 1824. A Baltimore directory for 1825 has not been located. Samuel S. Wood had re-located to New York by 1826. Shaw & Shoemaker entry assigns the estimated date of 1818. Mistakenly dated 1800 in Evans; dated ca. 1820 by Shipton & Mooney; dated ca. 1823 by Rosenbach. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 43032. - Some wood-engravings signed: "A." [i.e., Alexander Anderson?]
Additional Edition:
Reproduktion von Aikin, John The calendar of nature [between 1818 and 1824]
Language:
English
URL:
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https://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/aas04246075?origin=/collection/eai2
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