first edition
1820 · Philadelphia
by [MARCET, Jane Haldimand]
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. 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].
(Inventory #: 44811)