Geographical Series of Text-Books.

"No other Geographer living understands the relations of the Physical features of our earth so well, or knows how to present them to Students with such simplicity, as Prof. Guyot.”—AGASSIZ. No. I.

PRIMARY; OR, INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF
GEOGRAPHY.

ONE QUARTO VOLUME, WITH OVER 100 ELEGANT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Sample copies sent to Teachers for examination, on receipt of 60 cents.

No. II.

COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY.

IN ONE ROYAL QUARTO VOLUME, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS,

CONTAINING

Twenty-one Maps, three of which are double-page maps, engraved in the highest style of the art; colored Physically and Politically; embracing also diagrams for the construction of the maps of each continent according to Prof. Guyot's system of Constructive Map Drawing.

In the preparation of this series the great variety of extraneous matter with which geographies are generally crowded has been entirely rejected. But all that is most important in regard to the nature and resources of the countries of the earth-their people, cities, and commercial importance-is invariably given; the facts, however, are not given in the disconnected manner ordinarily employed, but are presented in the order of dependence, one upon the other. The physical character of each country is made the basis of the study of the country, and all facts regarding its Political Geography are so intimately linked with its Physical character that it is impossible to forget them.

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Sample copies sent, postage paid, on receipt of $1.40.

TEACHER'S EDITION OF THE

COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY;

Embracing the "Common School Geography," together with a Full Exposition of the Method of Geographical Teaching recommended by the Author. Sent free by mail on receipt of $1.50.

A descriptive Catalogue of

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GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS,

INCLUDING

GUYOT'S WALL MAPS FOR SCHOOLS,

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WARREN'S GEOGRAPHIES,

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