The Picture Gallery, or Lessons on Pictures and Stories. Designed to Exercise the Powers of Observation and Memory in Children and to Give Them A Fondness For Reading.
by Ramble, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1839. . 8vo. 96 pp, Hardcover. Printed boards and no dust jacket. Poor. Edgeworn binding, foxing throughout, chipped binding and shaken pages and cover completely detached from binding. Illustrated with wood engravings. Some are colored in. Cover lists publishing date as 1841 but title page lists 1839.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19-8536
- Title
- The Picture Gallery, or Lessons on Pictures and Stories. Designed to Exercise the Powers of Observation and Memory in Children and to Give Them A Fondness For Reading.
- Author
- Ramble, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1839.
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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