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Cours abrégé de géographie historique, by Ostervald, Frédéric-Samuel

Keywords: Geography, Historical geography, History, School Book

Parisian category: Géographie

Acquired: 8 full copies

Sold and Given: 2,015 full copies

Returns: 11 full copies

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Full title: Cours abrégé de géographie historique, ancienne & moderne, et de sphère: par demandes & réponses. Quatrième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'auteur
Edition type (by origin): STN editions

Author(s): Ostervald, Frédéric-Samuel
Language(s): French
Publication: Neuchâtel: Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, 1774
Details: 2 volumes

STN Catalogue 1777

Notes: Attribution - known STN edition. The STN published editions of both the 'Cours abrégé de géographie historique' and the 'Cours abrégé de géographie élémentaire' in 1770 (when they printed both a combined edition under the title 'Cours abrégé de géographie historique' and a stand alone edition of the 'Géographie élémentaire'), in 1774, in 1782, in 1783 and in 1789. They also published an edition of the 'Cours abrégé de géographie élémentaire' in 1788. On some occasions they bundled the short 'Géographie élémentaire' with the longer 'Géographie historique', while on others they sold them separately. Where just 'geographie' is recorded in the manuscripts, it referred, according to the STN's standard practice, either to the 1770 combined edition (which appears under the superbook title 'Géographie par Ostervald', or to a bundled set of both works, in which case a sale has been recorded under the separate superbooks for the 'Géographie historique' and 'Géographie élémentaire'.

Full title: Cours abrégé de géographie historique, ancienne & moderne, et de sphère: par demandes et réponses. Cinquième édition
Edition type (by origin): Livres en Société: STN joint editions

Author(s): Ostervald, Frédéric-Samuel
Language(s): French
Publication: Neuchâtel: Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, 1782-1783
Details: 2 volumes, in-12°, pages: 12, 360; [?]

LFB Catalogue 1787

Notes: Attribution - known STN edition. Schmidt, 'Liste des Impressions' (Annexe) lists a 1782 printing of the fifth edition but extant copies and Fauche-Borel catalogue (1787) give date as 1783. This may indicate that there were two printings, but sales data suggests more likely a change of title page, presumably due to slower than expected sales. Nevertheless, this work went through several more editions through until 1831. (The first known edition dates from 1761).