Item #34043 The Tenting School: A Description of the Tours taken, and of the Field Work done, by the Class of Geography in the Academy of Science and Art at Ringos, N.J. during the year 1882. C. W. Larison.

The Tenting School: A Description of the Tours taken, and of the Field Work done, by the Class of Geography in the Academy of Science and Art at Ringos, N.J. during the year 1882.

Ringos, N.J: C. W. Larison, Printer, 1883.

Price: $225.00


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First edition. Frontispiece and drawings in text. 292 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, about fine.

Item #34043

Account of tours by Larison and students of his Academy of Science and Art to Pickle's Mountain and sites in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The tour of Central New Jersey includes notable descriptions of Monmouth Battlefield, Squan Beach, Barnegat Bay, Manasquan, Asbury Park, and Bay Head. Printed in Larison's own phonetic type, this work is an important early source on these communities of the Jersey shore.