Improved Geographical Cards.

[Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson. [c1883]. Likely first edition and perhaps only edition of a rare item: only one copy listed in OCLC. . Original paper-covered box (3 x 5 x 1 in.). . Complete set of 200 cards (4 x 2 in.) containing 4-5 clues and answer on recto (verso is blue-backed and blank), as well as 4 pp. single-fold instruction booklet (5 x 3 in.). Chip to bottom corner and abrasion affecting legibility of inner text of instruction booklet. Names and notes penciled on the bottoms of lid and base. Rubbing exposing box joints. Some cards with mild fingersoil. Overall a very good copy. From the instructions: "Representing new and original methods of acquiring rapidly and permanently, the leading facts of Geography and U.S. History. Two editions of the Geographical Cards having been thoroughly tested in thousands of the best schools and families of our country, the author has prepared on a similar plan The Improved Historical Cards, which is presented to the public with the conscious satisfaction that the cause of education, to which head has devoted the best years of his life, can not fail to be advanced by the effort."