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. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Latin |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 20398. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | This first American edition of the popular textbook is one of the earliest American illustrated children's books. It has the same preface, with additions, and practically the same text as Greenwood's "London vocabulary" which the Dictionary of national biography states was an abridgement of "Orbis pictura" by Jan. Amos Komensky. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 123 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 16 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |