Cornell, S. S.

Cornell's Grammar - School Geography: Forming a Part of a Systematic Series of School Geographies. Embracing an Extended Course and Adapted to Pupils of the Higher Classes in Public and Private Schools

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1863. Civil War edition, with the Census of 1860 tipped-in (population and principal town of each state); 11 x 9 1/4' pp. [3], 4-108; brown, wngraved paper over boards and 1/4 black morocco; illustrated with numerous engravings, 27 full- and double-page, hand-colored maps, and 32 smaller, in-text, hand-colored maps; spotting and wear to paper on boards; small rubbed spots to tips of spine; census sheet uniformly browned; occasional spotting and foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves; in good or better condition. In an ironic twist, some of the best-known atlases and geographies in the second half of the 19th century were created by a largely-unknown female author. Sarah Sophia Cornell (uncertain, possibly 1815 - 1875) had her works published by Appleton under S. S. Cornell, which would prompt author John Alfred Nietz to assume she was a man and to refer to her in his book "Old Textbooks" as "he" and "his." Most of her writings went through more than 20 printings. Her curret geography, published in the midst of the Civil War, had various maps revised and differing from those in previous editions. Good .

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Book number: 003200

Catalogue: Geography

Keywords: Geography, Women Authors, United States, CIVIL War

Drachinskii, Petr G.

Littl Manitu. Lechebnoe Ozero V Provintsii Saskachevan - Kanada (Little Manitou. The Healing-Waters Lake in the Saskatchewan Province of Canada)

Vankuver (Vancouver), By the author, 1969. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 5-30, [1]; yellow wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with a photograph, a drawing, and a map; a small nick to tail of spine and minor wear to edges; in very good to near fine condition. An interesting example of medical geography literature, the booklet focused on Lake Little Manitou in Saskatchewan, known as the "Dead Sea of Canada" for its extreme salinity content, for the healing and curative properties of the water, and for the therapeutic quality of its mud. Very good .

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Book number: 003174

Catalogue: Medical Geography

Keywords: Canada, Medical Geography, Serbia, Russia