China Turkey Italy US McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early children’s picture book North America & Caribbean The center of Africa includes

The center of Africa includes the apocryphal Mts

Profusely illustrated throughout with many pictorial plates intended to be cut out to construct doll house furnishings

with advice to all family members and those headed west-ward to settle as pioneers

Key at bottom left identifies 16 different specific exploration expedition routes dating from 1805-60

publisher four joined sections

China Turkey Italy US McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early children’s picture book North America & Caribbean The center of Africa includesOriginal antique juvenile book. Dame Wonder's Picture Books= Miss Rose. Published NY, McLoughlin Brothers, c. 1855 65. [12 pp. counting covers], 8 hand colored woodcut images. Much loved and handled survival, covers loosened and well worn with edge splits, assorted age soiling, signs of handling, spine long ago thread hand stitched. Images still mostly clean. The survival rate of 19th century paper juvenile books such as this is very low, a minuscule