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Marinda Moore, 1863
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Confederate geography textbook
Marinda Moore, 1863
CONFEDERATE IMPRINT – MOORE, M[arinda] B[ranson] (1829-1864). The Geographical Reader for the Dixie Children. Raleigh, N.C.: Branson, Farrar, printed by Biblical Recorder, 1863.
"For the Dixie Children:" the very rare first edition of this fascinating Confederate school atlas with highly charged text. Although published in an edition of 10,000 copies, this was a hard-used and cheaply printed work and very few copies survived the War. Moore's text is an invaluable source on the views of this young white Southern teacher in 1863. Moore boasts of the happiness of southern slaves and is venomous towards Abraham Lincoln, but, interestingly, also speaks of God's coming punishment for the treatment of American Indians. Of the Yankees, she opines: "The people are ingenious and enterprising, and are noted for their tact in 'driving a bargain.' They are refined and intelligent on all subjects but that of negro slavery; on this they are mad." The maps are of the Confederate states except Texas, plus Maryland, Delaware, Illinois and parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana. This volume is the earliest geography textbook listed in Weeks's bibliography and very rare: the last copy recorded at auction sold in 1982. Weeks, "Confederate Text-Books (1861-1865): A Preliminary Bibliography," in: Report of the Commissioner of Education. USGPO, 1900.
Quarto (183 x 175mm). Six double-page wood-engraved maps hand-colored in outline (some foxing, small tear to title, some maps splitting at centerfold). Original cloth-backed printed boards (rubbed, a few leaves loosed from stitching).
Marinda Moore, 1863
CONFEDERATE IMPRINT – MOORE, M[arinda] B[ranson] (1829-1864). The Geographical Reader for the Dixie Children. Raleigh, N.C.: Branson, Farrar, printed by Biblical Recorder, 1863.
"For the Dixie Children:" the very rare first edition of this fascinating Confederate school atlas with highly charged text. Although published in an edition of 10,000 copies, this was a hard-used and cheaply printed work and very few copies survived the War. Moore's text is an invaluable source on the views of this young white Southern teacher in 1863. Moore boasts of the happiness of southern slaves and is venomous towards Abraham Lincoln, but, interestingly, also speaks of God's coming punishment for the treatment of American Indians. Of the Yankees, she opines: "The people are ingenious and enterprising, and are noted for their tact in 'driving a bargain.' They are refined and intelligent on all subjects but that of negro slavery; on this they are mad." The maps are of the Confederate states except Texas, plus Maryland, Delaware, Illinois and parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana. This volume is the earliest geography textbook listed in Weeks's bibliography and very rare: the last copy recorded at auction sold in 1982. Weeks, "Confederate Text-Books (1861-1865): A Preliminary Bibliography," in: Report of the Commissioner of Education. USGPO, 1900.
Quarto (183 x 175mm). Six double-page wood-engraved maps hand-colored in outline (some foxing, small tear to title, some maps splitting at centerfold). Original cloth-backed printed boards (rubbed, a few leaves loosed from stitching).
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