The catechism of nature; for the use of children.With notes, additions and corrections; including some late philosophical discoveries

MARTINET, Doctor

Published by Printed by W. Hawkes Smith, Birmingham, 1820

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62pp. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Extremities marked and worn, loss to lower corner of upper wrapper. Pen-trials to verso of upper wrapper and RFEP, near contemporary ownership inscriptions of James Verender to FFEP and head of dust-soiled title. A Regency edition, in original unsophisticated state, of an English translation, executed by John Hall, Minister of the English Presbyterian Church in Rotterdam, of Dutch minister of religion Johannes Florentius Martinet's (1729-1795) popular natural history primer, arranged, as with the majority of his output, in the form of a series of dialogues. Katechismus der natuur, was first issued at Amsterdam in four volumes between 1777 and 1779. Hall's, greatly abridged, translation was first published in 1790. The book discusses astronomy, ornithology, entomology, and the body and soul of man. Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # AQ29543

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Title: The catechism of nature; for the use of ...
Publisher: Printed by W. Hawkes Smith, Birmingham
Publication Date: 1820
Binding: Soft cover

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