A Pictorial Geography of the World: comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific, including a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the Earth and Its Various Divisions, with Numerous Sketches from Recent Travels: and Illustrated by More than Twelve Hundred Engravings of Manners, Costumes, Curiosities, Cities, Edifices, Ruins, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Plants, Fruits, etc.: with a Copious Index Answering the Purpose of a Gazetteer. A New Edition: in which the Original Work is Re-arranged, Revised, and Enlarged, with the Addition of a Supplement, Prepared for the Present Publisher.
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Year: 1856
Entry: Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. A Pictorial Geography of the World: comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific, including a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the Earth and Its Various Divisions, with Numerous Sketches from Recent Travels: and Illustrated by More than Twelve Hundred Engravings of Manners, Costumes, Curiosities, Cities, Edifices, Ruins, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Plants, Fruits, etc.: with a Copious Index Answering the Purpose of a Gazetteer. A New Edition: in which the Original Work is Re-arranged, Revised, and Enlarged, with the Addition of a Supplement, Prepared for the Present Publisher. Boston: Charles D. Strong, 1856 [c1840-54]. 2 vols.
Author/Editor: Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Location: Boston, MA
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: A Pictorial Geography of the World: comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific, including a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the Earth and Its Various Divisions, with Numerous Sketches from Recent Travels: and Illustrated by More than Twelve Hundred Engravings of Manners, Costumes, Curiosities, Cities, Edifices, Ruins, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Plants, Fruits, etc.: with a Copious Index Answering the Purpose of a Gazetteer. A New Edition: in which the Original Work is Re-arranged, Revised, and Enlarged, with the Addition of a Supplement, Prepared for the Present Publisher.
Printer/Publisher: Charles D. Strong
Language: English
Notes: Vol. 1, The Old World; vol. 2, The New World. As with the previous editions (Boston, 1840, etc.), the set contains scattered information about the Jews. With respect to the 1856 ed., see, for example, the comparisons of Jewish the character and temperament in Hungary with that of the Gypsies (vol. 1, p. 298); Jews and Samaritans in Palestine (vol. 1, suppl., pp. 215-20 passim); section, "Persia," drawing upon Asahel Grant’s The Nestorians; or, The Lost Tribes ... (1841), devoted to parallels between the Nestorians and the Jews (vol. 1, suppl., pp. 221-36).