Item #44811 CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,; in which The Elements of that Science are Familiarly Exlained and adapted to The Comprehension of Young Pupils. Illustrated with plates by the author of Conversations on Chemistry and Conversarions on Political Economy. Jane Haldimand MARCET.
CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,; in which The Elements of that Science are Familiarly Exlained and adapted to The Comprehension of Young Pupils. Illustrated with plates by the author of Conversations on Chemistry and Conversarions on Political Economy.
CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,; in which The Elements of that Science are Familiarly Exlained and adapted to The Comprehension of Young Pupils. Illustrated with plates by the author of Conversations on Chemistry and Conversarions on Political Economy.

CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,; in which The Elements of that Science are Familiarly Exlained and adapted to The Comprehension of Young Pupils. Illustrated with plates by the author of Conversations on Chemistry and Conversarions on Political Economy.

Philadelphia: J. Y. Humphreys, 1820. First American edn. Small 8vo, pp. [xii], 312. Bound in contemporary calf, lacks small piece at the foot of the spine), some foxing and staining, a very good copy. Housed in a cardboard case. Issued in London the previous year. Imprints 2100. Item #44811

Marcet (1769-1858) wrote a number of elementary books of instruction, especially science. Born in London to wealthy Swiss parents, her Conversations were the early nineteenth-century's best known introductory science texts for women and young people, widely used in English and American schools ...[Blain p. 712].

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