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Singerman ID#supp0106

Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children. With Nine Maps and Seventy-Five Engravings. Principally for the Use of Schools

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Singerman ID#supp0106

[Goodrich, Samuel Griswold]. Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children. With Nine Maps and Seventy-Five Engravings. Principally for the Use of Schools. Boston: Carter & Hendre; Hartford: H. & F. J. Huntington, 1830 [c1829]. 114 p.

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The Jews, numbering 6,000,000 in Europe and Asia, are portrayed as the descendants of the Christ-killing Israelites (see pp. 84, 110-11, 113). On p. 111, "The Jews still reject Christ, and believe him to be an impostor," with a related view of a "Jewish high priest rejecting Christ, who is suffering crucifixion"). Cover title: Peter Parley’s Geography for Children. Running title: Geography for Children. Frequently reissued. Editions with 120 p. also exist. Cooper 1625.