Item #58208 The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. James Greenwood.
The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures

The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures

Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1806. 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 123, [1]; vignette title page and pictorial woodcut headers for each section; full speckled calf; spine rebacked with japanese tissue; light tidestains; good copy. A popular school text by the surmaster of St. Paul's School who also compiled an English grammar. The Latin vocabulary went through many editions in both England and America, where it was titled the Philadelphia Vocabulary. It is, essentially, an abridgement of Jan Amos Komensky's Orbis Pictura. The first American edition appeared in 1787. American Imprints 10503; See Vancil, p. 101 and Osborne, p. 123 for other editions. Item #58208

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