Gaultier was a French Catholic priest who became a refugee from the French Revolution and set up a school in England for the children of fellow refugees. He was an innovative teacher who pioneered the concept of educating children by means of amusement and activity. An attractive map with original hand colouring which remains bright and fresh. The locations on the map are deliberatively left un-named for pupils to identify. Dated in the plate (1797)
Comes from a complete course of geography, by means of instructive games, invented by the Abbe Gaultier. Collated with the author’s last Paris edition, and digested for Europe conformably to the territorial arrangements of the Pacification of 1815, by Jehoshaphat Aspin. In three parts. The first part, containing the game of simple geography, for teaching the names and situations of the different countries and places of the Earth. The second part, containing a concise treatise on the artificial sphere. The third part, containing a geographical game, illustrative of ancient and modern history.
