Martel's elements ...
Contributors: Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860, inscriber.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by C.C. Van Alen & Co. for Michael Martel
Published: 1796
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Subjects: French language -- Composition and exercises -- Early works to 1800; French language -- Readers -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Composition and exercises; Early works to 1800.; Readers
Notes: In English and French.
Evans 30740, 32425
Title and imprint of v. 2 varies: Martel's elements, containing a choice of the most interesting traits in ancient & modern history ... Newyork : Printed for the author, 1797.
Vol. 1: xvii, [2], 20-480, 112 p.; v. 2: [4], 139-680.
"Fin du second et dernier volume": v. 1, p. 660.
LC copy imperfect: v. 1 wanting, transcription of v. 1 t.p. and collation from American Antiquarian Society on RLIN.
LC copy has inscriptions: J.K. Paulding, H.A. Ovington.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) containing, I. new essays on education, relative especially to history, moral philosophy, and composition; title: II. An introduction to the French language, by means of a literal translation of the first hundred pages of this book, the conjugation of the verbs, and some familiar phrases; title: III. A selection of delicate bon-mots, anecdotes, sentences, sentiments, thoughts, play on words, anagrams, witticisms, devices, puns, jokes, apologues, happy applications of passages in famous writers, stories, ingenious repartees : but having nothing of what might alarm modesty or excite condemnable laughter upon the objects of our duties and of our respect, which, certainly, is not the case in the books now in the hands of youth, to learn French by.