An easy grammar of geography, intended as a companion and introduction to the "Geography on a popular plan for schools and young persons." With maps. By the Rev. J. Goldsmith. A new edition, Improved, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.

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Title An easy grammar of geography, intended as a companion and introduction to the "Geography on a popular plan for schools and young persons." With maps. By the Rev. J. Goldsmith. A new edition, Improved, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.
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Signed Author By the Rev. J. Goldsmith.
Pseudonym Rev. J. Goldsmith
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Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination vi, 8-196
Date of Publication 1811
Edition Statement A new edition, Improved, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.
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Imprint Published by Johnson and Warner, and sold at their houses in Philadelphia, Richmond (Vir.) and Lexington, (Kty.) Lydia R. Bailey, printer.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered, that on the twenty-second day of December, in the thirty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ten, Johnson and Warner, of the said District hath deposited in this office, the Title of a Book the right whereof they claim as Proprietors in the words following, to wit: "An easy grammar of geography, intended as a companion and introduction to the "Geography on a popular plan for schools and young persons." With maps. By the Rev. J. Goldsmith. A new edition, Improved, by a Citizen of Philadelphia." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of ,aps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.' And also to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Notes AAS Notes: By Sir Richard Phillips, who used the pseudonym, "Rev. J. Goldsmith."
Caption title: Grammar of geography.
Copyright Dec. 22, 1810 by Johnson and Warner.
Metal-engraved chart of the sun's movements in the course of a day, frontispiece.
A copy held by the Free Library of Philadelphia has the word 'easy' on the title page misspelled 'aesy'.
"A vocabulary of names of places, divided and accented in the way in which they are usually pronounced."--p. [148]-196.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
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American Antiquarian Society copy lacks maps. Inscribed: This is the property of Frances Lehnert, June 20th 1817; W. & F. Lehnert, Litiz.
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Phillips, Richard. An easy grammar of geography, intended as a companion and introduction to the "Geography on a popular plan for schools and young persons." With maps. By the Rev. J. Goldsmith. A new edition, Improved, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21580, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21580. Accessed 2025-11-03. 

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