The calendar of nature: designed for the instruction and entertainment of young persons
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Main Author: Aikin, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New-York Printed and sold by Samuel Wood & Sons, at the Juvenile Book-Store, no. 357, Pearl-Street 1815
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Item Description:"An account of the origin of the names of some months of the year, and of the days of the week, now commonly used."--p. [110]-111. - "For sale by Samuel Wood & Sons, at the Juvenile Book-store, and paper warehouse ..."--advertisement, lower cover. - "Table of the sun's entrance into each sign of the zodiac."--p. [113]. - "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. [iii]-v, signed by J. Aikin, and dated at Warrington, May, 20, 1784. - "The rural calendar."--p. [90]-109. Poems written for each month of the year. - Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1958 ed.), 256. - Last page blank. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 33807. - Some wood engravings signed "A" (i.e., Alexander Anderson). - Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 24
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