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BALBI'S GEOGRAPHY.
AN ABRIDGMENT OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY,
MODERN AND ANCIENT, chiefly compiled from the
Abrège de Geographie of Adrian Balbi. By T. G. Bradford;
accompanied by a valuable Atlas, and illustrated by
Engravings.
The above work contains 520 pages, 12mo., and is the most copious School
Geography yet offered to the public, and it is believed to be an important
improvement, especially for the use of the higher schools and seminaries. It
has received the sanction of all teachers who have examined it, and has been
favorably noticed in many of our public journals. The Atlas accompanying
this work contains thirty-six maps and charts, and is confidently recommended
as superior, in every respect, to any thing of the kind now in use. From
the numerous notices of the work, the publishers present the following:—
From the Rev. J. M. Matthews, D. D., Chancellor of New York University.
I have looked over Balbi's Geography, and the Atlas accompanying it.
The arrangement and execution of both the works are such as to render
them a valuable acquisition to our schools. I hope they will meet the patronage
which they so well merit.
From the Rev. George Bush, Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature,
New York University.
From the examination I have been able to bestow upon Balbi's Geography
and Atlas, I am fully satisfied of its claims to general patronage. As a manual
of geography and statistics, at once compendious and complete, I am
not acquainted with any so highly deserving the attention of those who are
placed at the head of our literary institutions.
From S. Johnston, Esq., Principal of an English and Classical School,
New York.
The examination of Balbi's Geography and Atlas has afforded me much
pleasure. I highly approve of its arrangement, which, with the new matter
it contains relative to Canals and Railroads, &c., renders it a valuable text-book
for our more advanced schools. As a proof of my approbation of the
book, I have resolved to adopt it in my first class.
From Mr. J. F. Jenkins, Principal of the Mechanics' Society Institute, New
York.
New York, Sept. 11, 1835.
Having examined Bradford's edition of Balbi's Geography, I am happy to
state my conviction that it is a valuable work. The arrangement of a greater
amount than usual of important information, is judicious throughout, and the
number, neatness and accuracy of the accompanying maps, give it a decided
superiority over most of the geographical treatises in use, and render it
peculiarly suitable for the highest classes of students.
From Mr. A. Clarke, Principal of the Owego Academy, Tioga County,
New York.
I have examined, with much pleasure, Bradford's edition of Balbi's Geography
and Atlas. With the arrangement of subjects I am particularly
pleased. The student is at once made acquainted with the more easy and
interesting geography of his own country, and is then introduced to other
portions of the world, arranged somewhat in the order of their importance.
I think that this, with the valuable Atlas accompanying it, will be well received
by an intelligent public.
From the New York Morning News.
It has, indeed, all the advantages which Balbi's work could supply; but it
has also the additional ones of more recent dates and facts, and a fuller and
more accurate notice of our own country. It has also the merit of an arrangement
at once new, philosophic, and, to the American reader, more acceptable
than that of the European geographies.
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