Appleton's Mathematical Series: A Practical Arithmetic. by George P. Quackenbos
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content: 1869
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content: D. Appleton and Company
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content: <i>Appleton's Mathematical Series: A Practical Arithmetic.</i> is the third in the author's series of Arithmetics designed for classes in both public and private schools. Its chapters run the typical gamut from addition to square root. What is distinctive is that the author used examples that reflect the economic turmoil of the era (i.e., higher prices, revised tariffs, new taxes). The green cover features an illustration of a teacher pointing to a problem on the blackboard, while several boys and girls in the class look on. The back cover, as well as the inside cover pages, contain lists of books in the Appleton Series and other educational works. The text is 336 pages in length.
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content: Author George Payn Quackenbos (1826-1881) graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. (1843), an M.A. (1846). and a law degree in 1849. He also received an LL.D. in 1863 from Wesleyan. He became principal of the Henry Street Grammar School in 1847. He was editor of the <i>Literary American</i> from 1848-1850; <i>Spier’s French Dictionary (1850)</i>, and several other foreign language dictionaries. Quackenbos authored many other children’s school books, including: <i>First Lessons in Compositions (1851); Advanced Course of Rhetoric and Composition (1854); A School History of the United States (1857); American History for Schools (1878), First Lessons in Composition (1851), Natural Philosophy (1859)</i>; an English grammars series (1862-1864) and a mathematics series (1863-1874), which includes this book, and <i>Language Lessons (1876).</i> His son, John Duncan Quackenbos was also a graduate of Columbia, teacher and author of school texts.
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content: D. Appleton & Company was an early American printer and publisher founded in New York City by Daniel Appleton (1785-1849). The firm’s publications gradually extended over a broad field of literature. The company grew to become one of the world's most important publishing houses. Appleton bought into American Book Company when it was formed but continued to publish under its name including <i>Appleton’s Magazine</i> and <i> Appleton’s Booklovers</i> and through reorganizing and a bankruptcy filing. In 1933, Appleton merged with Century to create a new company, D. Appleton-Century Co. Then in 1948, D. Appleton-Century Co. merged with F.S. Crofts, Inc. The new company was sold to Prentice-Hall in the 1960s.
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content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: The Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2014.3127.31
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content: 2014.3127
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content: 2014.3127.31
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content: Books
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 in x 1 in; 19.05 cm x 12.7 cm x 2.54 cm