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. Good. 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.