Last Leaves of American History:

Comprising A Separate History of California

by Emma Willard 

First Edition.  New York:  A.S. Barnes & Co., and Cincinnati:  H.W. Derby & Co., 1853 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Red cloth covers have blind stamped decorative frames. 
• Boards show some age, smudges, edgewear.  Corners are frayed with exposed board.  See photos. 
• Spine has gilt text dimmed and is faded, with crushed, frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  
• Pastedowns and feps of patterned paper with publisher's advertisements have some light foxing, a few marks. 
• Frontispiece, a map of the United States, is present.
• Interior exhibits scattered light foxing, a few marks.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges are a little dusty. 
• PS2024.0801

277 pages. 5 x 7.25 inches

A very good copy, in the publisher's red cloth covers, of this compact volume of Emma Willard's Leaves of American History, updated to include a History of California.  Formatted with the reader in mind, the book has generous margins with subject notations and the year on each page.  Includes a Map of the United States, Geographically and Chronologically Divided into Eight Parts.

Emma Willard (1787-1870) was a female education activist, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, now known as the Emma Willard School.  In addition to teaching and advocating for the improvement of female education, she wrote numerous textbooks.  Willard's history and geography texts included women as well as men and emphasized the status of women as the primary determinant in whether a society could be described as civilized.

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