The first book of history, combined with geography
Subtitle: containing the history and geography of the Western Hemisphere for the use of schools
By: by the author of Peter Parley's tales ; illustrated by engravings and colored maps
Contributors: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan; Boston Stereotype Foundry
Edition: Revised and improved edition, with important additions.
Publisher: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Copyright date: 1852
Subjects: Geography; Textbooks; History; Maps; Juvenile literature; Historical geography
Other titles: Parley's first book of history
Notes: On cover: Western hemisphere.

At head of title: Parley's first book of history.

Maps are hand-colored.

Includes chronological table and pronouncing index.

Publisher's catalogue follows text.

Text printed in two columns.

Rare Book copy: Laid in is an excerpt (pages 123-142), which appears to be from: The new school reader : Fourth book : Embracing a comprehensive system of instruction in principles of elocution ... / by Charles W. Sanders -- Philadelphia : Sower & Barnes, [1854?].

Gift; Frances Henne; 1985.

Rare Book copy: From the library of A.H. Carr, with autograph, dated January 9, 1854.

Rare Book copy: In publisher's binding of quarter black leather with printed green paper over pasteboard; upper cover with title and vignette in pictorial border; lower cover with publisher's advertisement in pictorial border.