| Author | Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.
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| Title | A new system of modern geography : or, A geographical, historical, and commercial grammar ; and present state of the several nations of the world ... / by William Guthrie ; the astronomical parts corrected by Dr. Rittenhouse.
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| Edition | 1st American ed., corr., improved, and greatly enl. |
| Published | Philadelphia : Mathew Carey, 1794-95.
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| Description | 2 v. : il., plates ; 27 cm.
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| General Note | Includes index.
"Of this popular grammar, Know, the bookseller, is said to be the real compiler."--Watt, Bibl. brit., 1824, v. 1:452ยน.
First published in 1770 under title: A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar.
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| Subjects | Geography -- Early works to 1800.
Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
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| Other Authors | Knox, John, 1720-1790,
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| LC Card Number | 05-36669//rd |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: G 121 G984, v. 1
mq85883 v.1: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| | WRHS Research Library: G 121 G984, v. 2
mq51566 v.2: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 49430] |
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