Description
Title: Leçons de Géographie
Author: M. L’Abbé Gaultier
Publisher: Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, Paris
Published: 1822
Binding: Hardcover
Language: French
Edition: 18th edition
Number of Pages: 204
Catalogs: Schoolbooks, Geography, Textbooks
: Original quarter-calf with marbled paper over boards. Leather is rubbed away at corners, and shows pest damage at top and bottom of spine. Hinges are somewhat weak. Foxing throughout. Ownership information in ink on pastedown. This is the 18th edition of this small volume of Lessons in Geography. Abbé Aloïsius Édouard Camille Gaultier (1745/6-1818) was a French Roman Catholic priest and educational reformer. In 1792 he left France during the worst of the Revolution, passing via Holland to England where he set up a school for the children of other refugees. He was a pioneer in getting children to learn through amusing them and was made a member of the commission for the reorganization of public instruction. He wrote a large number of books, such as Géographie de l’abbé Gaultier, that became popular as instructional books in nineteenth-century France. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 204 pages, 32mo.
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