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Learning about common things, or, Familiar instructions for children in respect to the objects around them, that attract their attention, and awaken their curiosity, in the earliest years of life

Title
  1. Learning about common things, or, Familiar instructions for children in respect to the objects around them, that attract their attention, and awaken their curiosity, in the earliest years of life / by Jacob Abbott ; illustrated with one hundred and twenty engravings.
Published by
  1. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1857.
Author
  1. Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879.

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Description
  1. xi, 192 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 18 cm.
Series statement
  1. Harper's picture books for the nursery
  2. The Little learner
Alternative title
  1. About common things.
  2. Familiar instructions for children.
Subject
  1. Nature study > Juvenile literature
Call number
  1. RNPG (Abbott, J. Learning about common things)
Note
  1. Cover title: About common things.
  2. At head of title: The little learner.
Author
  1. Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879.
Title
  1. Learning about common things, or, Familiar instructions for children in respect to the objects around them, that attract their attention, and awaken their curiosity, in the earliest years of life / by Jacob Abbott ; illustrated with one hundred and twenty engravings.
Imprint
  1. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1857.
Series
  1. Harper's picture books for the nursery
  2. The Little learner
Local note
  1. Imperfect: p. 191-192 mutilated.
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  1. Full text available via HathiTrust
Added title
  1. About common things.
  2. Familiar instructions for children.
Research call number
  1. RNPG (Abbott, J. Learning about common things)
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