general geography rudiments useful knowledge di spafford h g (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Bound in full calf leather. Boards are plain. Spine bears black leather label stamped in gilt lettering and ornamentation. Map of the world frontispiece. Sections include: I. Of the Solar System; II. Of the Earth; III. Of Maps and Globes; IV. View of Natural Philosophy as useful preliminary to the Study of Geography and Natural History; V. Treats of General Geography; VI. View of the different Languages, Systems of Religion, and Governments of Nations; VII. Of Chronology; VIII. An extensive Graphical Table; IX. Decimal Arithmetic, Table of Monies of Commercial Countries with their denominations, List of all Post Offices in the United States and their distances from Washington, and Chronological Table of Remarkable Events, Improvements, and Discoveries from the Creation to the present time. "Illustrated with an Elegant Improved Plate of the Solar System.A Map of the World.Of the United States.and several Engravings on Wood. Digested on a New Plan, and Designed for the Use of Schools." (from the title page). xii, 381 pp. CONDITION: Good only. Boards have both detached but are present, along with the front flyleaf. Frontispiece map of the world is 1/2 missing. Fold out map of the United States reflecting the states within the union as of 1808 is amazing, but bears a 3.5 inch closed tear at the left side. Solar system map is intact. Heavily toned, yet text is still quite legible. Unmarked except for notation in dipped ink within the endpapers. An amazing little gem and wonderful gift for any geography enthusiast, map collector, or historian. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., (7 2/8 x 4 3/8 inches). Folding engraved double-hemisphere map of the world, , full-page engraved plate of the Solar System, folding map of "United States or Fredon", woodcuts in the text (lower left-hand corner repaired, some browning overall). Contemporary American sheep, the smooth spine gilt-ruled in six compartments, red morocco lettering-piece in one (a bit scuffed and with some surface tears). Provenance: with the contemporary ownership inscription "Sylvenus Crosby's Book Bought of Ja.s. Webb price $1-" on the front free endpaper, with his engraved booplate on the front paste-down; with an early blind inscription "New N. Berlin" on the upper cover. First edition. THE FIRST USE OF THE WORD "FREDON" TO DENOTE THE UNITED STATES IN A PRINTED MAP. Dr. Samuel Mitchill (1764-1831), "Once described as a "chaos of knowledge," Mitchill was generally more admired for his encyclopedic breadth of understanding than for much originality of thought" (Sterling) first proposed the use of the word "Fredon" in volume VI, part IV, of his voluminous "Medical Repository", in 1803. On pages 449-50 he wrote: "Proposal to the American literati, and to all the citizens of the United States, to employ the following names and epithets for the country and nation to which they belong; which, at the distance of 27 years from the declaration and of 20 years from the acknowledgment of their independence, are to this day destitute of proper geographical and political denominations, whereby they may be aptly distinguished from the other regions and peoples of the earth: "Fredon", the aggregate noun for the whole territory of the United States. "Fredonia", a noun of same import, for rhetorical and poetical use. "Fredonian", a sonorous name for 'a citizen of the United States'. "Frede", a short and colloquial name for 'a citizen of the United States'. "Fredish", an adjective to denote the relations and concerns of the United States Example. Fredon is probably better supplied with the materials of her own history than Britain, France, or any country in the world, and the reason is obvious, for the attention of the Fredonians was much sooner directed, after their settlement, to the collection and preservations of their facts and records than that of the Dutch and Irish. Hence it will happen that the events of Fredish history will be more minutely known and better understood than those of Russian, Turkish, or Arabic. And thereby the time will be noted carefully when a native of this land, on being asked who he is and whence he came, began to answer in one word that he is a Frede, instead of using the tedious circumlocution that he was "a citizen of the United States of America." And in the like manner notice will be taken of the association of Fredonia and Macedonia and Caledonia as a word equally potent and melodious in sound" (Mitchill). Keir B. Sterling for ADNB. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Full calf. 8vo. [xii] 381pp with 2 fold out maps and diagram of the solar system. Pages toned with some foxing. Covers and spine show wear. The second fold out map "engd. for Spafford's geography 1808" by Gideon Fairman Sr. is titled "United States; or Fredon." "It was a great oversight" of the Constitution's framers that they did not give the United States a "proper name." So claimed Samuel Latham Mitchill in an 1803 broadside. A doctor by training, Mitchill not only diagnosed this problem, he also proposed a remedy. The land occupied by the United States, he suggested, should be called Fredon, or Fredonia in its more "poetical" form. The people of Fredonia would be called Fredonians or Fredes. And the adjectival form would be Fredish. Mitchill declared these various words were "sonorous," and the whole language "rich and copious." This Fredish language would even translate well into verse: "Their chiefs, to glory lead on/The noble sons of Fredon.".

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, Octavo, full leather over boards with leather spine label. Printed for "use of schools" contains the following sections: the solar system; the Earth; maps and globes; natural philosophy; general geography; the languages, governments, and religions of nations; chronology; an extensive geographic table; and a section of reference tables on mathematics, geography, and history. Contains fold out maps of the world and United States, and an.