ÆSOP'S FABLES, IN FRENCH; With a Description of Fifty Animals, Mentioned Therein and a French and English Dictionary of All the Words Contained in the Work

by Aesop

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Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849. Early edition of this French reader for young US learners, published as the cracks that would lead to the Civil War began to form. Very good. Item #47625 The world economic status of the US in 1849 was strong, due in no small part to the country's ability to produce cotton cheaply through the labor of enslaved people. With the rise of Industrial Revolution technology, people

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