BREAKFAST-TABLE SCIENCE: Or The Philosophy of Common Things:Written expressly for the amusement and instruction of young people

Published by Alexander V. Blake, New York, 1843

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16mo; xi, 193, 36 pages, lacks its covers. Ex libris G. H. Tucker, Raymond, NY, from his Father. Fifty-five remarkable chapters that address such scientific issues for children as, "Dandelion clocks", " Why a Fly Cannot Ride on Horseback ", "Why a Rotten Apple is Bitter ", "Is Our Canary Happy?" and so on. Four wood engravings. Issued in the Youth's Library for the Parlor series. If young people open this book and read the titles of the different articles in it, there is little reason to apprehend that they will lay it aside before they are sufficiently interested to make them keep the volume and read it through."--Preface.

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Title
BREAKFAST-TABLE SCIENCE: Or The Philosophy of Common Things:Written expressly for the amusement and instruction of young people
Author
WRIGHT, J. H.; Joseph H. Wright
Publisher
Alexander V. Blake, New York
Publication year
1843
Condition
Poor
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First American Edition.
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Children Juvenile, dandelion, science, textbook

Thomas J. Joyce And Company

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …

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