Abbé Aloïsius Édouard Camille Gaultier; Adolphe Jacques Quetelet — Geography of Abbe Gaultier

Brussels, La Societe Nationale, 1844 . Cloth. The sixteenth edition of this little French book of geography by Abbé Gaultier with maps, games, and questions to teach geography through play rather than memorisation, with two fold-out plates. The sixteenth edition in the publisher's original quarter cloth. Written in French. With two fold-out plates, one map to the start (map of 'Mer du Nor' or the North Sea), and one more towards the rear (solar eclipses), of the work. Collated, complete. Abbé Aloïsius Édouard Camille Gaultier was a French Roman Catholic priest and educational reformer. In 1792 he left France during the worst of the Revolution, passing via Holland to England where he set up a school for the children of other refugees. Geography of Abbe Gaultier uses maps, games, and questions to teach geography through play rather than rote memorisation, often featuring "plain maps" (lacking names) for students to identify locations. Edited by A. Quetelet,  a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.  In the publisher's original quarter cloth. Externally, generally smart with shelf wear to the extremities and joints and the odd mark to the boards. Some rubbing and loss of cloth to joints and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean but toned. Small contemporary ink inscription to title page. Good . Ill.: None. Good .