A new and easy introduction to universal geography
Subtitle: in a series of letters to a youth at school : describing the figure, motions, and dimensions of the earth, the different seasons of the year, the situation and extent of the several empires, kingdoms, states, and provinces, their government, customs, religion, manners, and the characters of the reigning sovereigns
By: by the Rev. R. Turner, Jun. ... ; illustrated with copper-plates, and a new set of maps, drawn and engraved by the best artists, on purpose for this work ... to which is added, a large map of the world, on which are delineated the different tracks of Captain Cook's ship, in his three voyages round the world ; also a plate of the terrestial globe, and a plate of a new and curious geographical clock
Edition: 10th ed., improved and considerably enl
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson, G. and J. Robinson, F. and C. Rivington, G. Wilkie, J. Scatcherd, Longman and Rees, C. Law, and J. Mawman
Published: 1802
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800; Geography -- Juvenile literature; Toy and movable books -- Specimens
Notes: First published 1780. Cf. Osborne Coll., I, p. 192-193

The plate facing page 27 is a geographical clock with a movable indicator which when turned in a given direction shows the hour of the day in any part of the world

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