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[HOFLAND, Barbara]. The panorama of europe; or, A New Game of Geography.

London. Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1819. Second edition.
12mo. v, [1], 191pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-tooled red roan-backed buff paper boards. Rubbed, joints starting, corners exposed. Contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting.
The second edition, in original state, of Barbara Hofland's (bap. 1770, d. 1844) Minerva Press printed primer on European history; presented in the form of a dialogue between a mother and father and their nine children. The conversation does not progress chronologically, though does conclude with discussion of the predominant event at the time of the publication of the first edition in 1813; the then ongoing Napoleonic Wars. Indeed, it would appear that the final section of the text has been altered from the first edition, as the family meet once again in 1819 and discuss the conclusion of the conflict and the exile of Bonaparte.
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 32558