Columbus, or The Discovery of America; as related by a father to his children, and designed for the instruction of youth

Washington St., Boston: Munroe and Francis, and Charles S. Francis, New York., [ca 1825]. Hardcover. 24mo (6" x 3.75"), green cloth, paper title label at spine, series label at front cover. Hand-colored lithographic frontis., viii, [1], 270 pp., [2] pp. pub. ads, with hand colored wood-engraving. Early ink inscription of "Andrew N. Wyeth, Cambridge" at ffep. CONDITION: Good, some losses to spine label, worn at extremities, remnants on pastedowns from removed paper book-cover, foxing throughout. A juvenile biography by German author Campe, part of the "Juvenile Classicks" series by publisher Munroe & Francis, intended "to be done up in a neat, cheap, and durable manner." The ownership inscription by Andrew N. Wyeth, Cambridge, is most likely that of the great grandfather of artist Andrew N. Wyeth, as one Andrew Newell Wyeth lived in Cambridge MA from 1817 to 1880. [say more on wyeth.]