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A popular dictionary of facts and knowledge : for the use of schools and students : with several hundred engravings in wood
A popular dictionary of facts and knowledge : for the use of schools and students : with several hundred engravings in wood
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A popular dictionary of facts and knowledge : for the use of schools and students : with several hundred engravings in wood

DateBI PHI||1864291
Names
Alternate Title
  • Barrow's dictionary of knowledge
Format
Medium
Dimensions20 x 11 cm
Extent
  • 20 x 11 cm
Language
ProvenanceGift of Harvie D. Walford
CollectionOsborne Collection of Early Children's Books
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131009530320D
Dewey NumberBI PHI
Catalogue Record for Print Bookhttps://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=1864291
A first or mother's dictionary for children : containing upwards of three thousand eight hundred words which occur most frequently in books and conversation : simply and familiarly explained, and interspersed throughout with occasional remarks : the whole adapted to the capacities of younger pupils
A first or mother's dictionary for children : containing upwards of three thousand eight hundred words which occur most frequently in books and conversation : simply and familiarly explained, and interspersed throughout with occasional remarks : the whole adapted to the capacities of younger pupils
1815
General knowledge made easy, or, The childs first step : to mechanics, mineralogy, agriculture. sculpture, architecture, anatomy, botany, pharmacy, chemistry, painting, drawing, mythology, commerce, algebra, electricity, astronomy, navigation, biography, logic, philosophy, poetry, religion, geometry, rhetoric, mathematics, optics, jurisprudence, arithmetic : also easy descriptions of clouds -- rain -- snow -- dew -- hail -- tides -- earthquakes -- thunder -- lightning -- &c. &c
General knowledge made easy, or, The childs first step : to mechanics, mineralogy, agriculture. sculpture, architecture, anatomy, botany, pharmacy, chemistry, painting, drawing, mythology, commerce, algebra, electricity, astronomy, navigation, biography, logic, philosophy, poetry, religion, geometry, rhetoric, mathematics, optics, jurisprudence, arithmetic : also easy descriptions of clouds -- rain -- snow -- dew -- hail -- tides -- earthquakes -- thunder -- lightning -- &c. &c
1830
Cyclopaedia of history & geography, being a dictionary of historical & geographical antonomasias, origin of sects
Cyclopaedia of history & geography, being a dictionary of historical & geographical antonomasias, origin of sects
1859
Fifth book of lessons for the use of schools
Fifth book of lessons for the use of schools
1855
Miscellanea ex diuersis historiographis, oratoribus, & poetis diligenti admod? labore excerpta : quibus varij hominum mores, exempla, proprietates, nomenclature? q[ue] brutor?, aui?, piscium, arbor?, syluarum, montium, fluuiorum, fontium, lacuu, region? deniq[ue] contin?tur : his & deor? quæ aut antiquitate, aut raritate, aut scitu digna videbantur adiecta s?t
Miscellanea ex diuersis historiographis, oratoribus, & poetis diligenti admod? labore excerpta : quibus varij hominum mores, exempla, proprietates, nomenclature? q[ue] brutor?, aui?, piscium, arbor?, syluarum, montium, fluuiorum, fontium, lacuu, region? deniq[ue] contin?tur : his & deor? quæ aut antiquitate, aut raritate, aut scitu digna videbantur adiecta s?t
1519
Dr. Chase's new receipt book, or, Information for everybody. The life-long observations of the author, embracing the choicest, most valuable and entir(...)
Dr. Chase's new receipt book, or, Information for everybody. The life-long observations of the author, embracing the choicest, most valuable and entir(...)
1889
The gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history
The gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history
1783
Text in centre framed by illustrations of flowers, ribbons and coins, colours of green, red, bl ...
1000 things worth knowing
1897
A dictionary of the Otchipwe language, explained in English; this language is spoken by the Chippewa Indians, as also by the Otawas, Potawatamis and Algonquins, with little difference, for the use of missionaries and other persons living among the above mentioned Indians
A dictionary of the Otchipwe language, explained in English; this language is spoken by the Chippewa Indians, as also by the Otawas, Potawatamis and Algonquins, with little difference, for the use of missionaries and other persons living among the above mentioned Indians
1853
Grammar and dictionary of the Blackfoot language in the Dominion of Canada: for the use of missionaries, schoolteachers and others
Grammar and dictionary of the Blackfoot language in the Dominion of Canada: for the use of missionaries, schoolteachers and others
1889
An Irish English primer : intended for the use of schools : containing about four thousand Irish monosyllables, with their corresponding explanation in English : together with a few of Aesop's fables, in Irish and in English
An Irish English primer : intended for the use of schools : containing about four thousand Irish monosyllables, with their corresponding explanation in English : together with a few of Aesop's fables, in Irish and in English
1815
A dictionary of the Cree language
A dictionary of the Cree language
1938