COLBURNS MENTAL ARITHMETIC IN CHINESE. translator's manuscript title on rear endpaper
by Warren Colburn
$850 · Offered by Bartleby's Books
First edition · Signed
NP: np, nd 19th century ? . First edition in Chinese ? . 12mp. 6 , 144 , 6 pp. Inscribed on a rear endpaper, under the manuscript title, presented to Geo. A. Hearn Esquire by the translator C.H. Hearn's bookplate on front pastedown . Warren Colburn 1793-1883 first published his text, entitled First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic, in 1821, shortly after graduating from Harvard; the work was widely translated into Hawaiina and other languages for
Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.