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Stockholm: Tryckt uti Kongl. Boktr....af J.H. Werner, 1702. [16],190,[1]pp., including ten woodcut illustrations (three of them full-page), and various woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Plus seven engraved plates and maps (two of the maps folding; one of the plates folding). Title printed in black and red with a woodcut device. Small.....
Godthaab: Lars Møller, 1872. 39pp. plus folding lithographic plate. Contemporary plain wrappers. Spine perished. Last leaf and rear wrapper detached, folding plate nearly so. Moderate edge wear. Overall internally clean. Good. An apparent continuation of Møller's four- part series on regional Greenland local councils. The fourth part discusses the northern.....
Ristigouche, Quebec. 1921. [4],xii,[5]-456pp. Contemporary half pigskin and pebbled cloth. Spine rubbed and chipped. Pocket on front pastedown. Internally fresh. Very good. The Catholic catechism, with prayers, psalms, and hymns rendered entirely in Micmac ideograms. This is a facsimile reprint of the original edition published in Vienna in 1866. However.....
Paris: Saugrain and Charles Estienne Hochereau, 1724. Two volumes. [8],610pp. plus twenty-one plates including frontispiece and map; [26],490,[41]pp. plus twenty-two plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, gilt, stamped with the arms of the House of Chimay on both covers, spines gilt extra, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn, some scuffing to covers, head.....
Hamburg: Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1791. xxiv,334,[2]pp. plus folding map. 20th-century cloth spine and marbled boards, spine gilt. Very minor foxing. Very good. First German edition. Long began working for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1768. As a fur trader he travelled extensively among the Canadian Indians for nineteen years. "His.....
Sucre: Imprenta Boliviana, April 28, 1860. Title-leaf plus 224 numbered columns on fifty-six leaves. Gathered signatures, stitched. Light numerical inscription in red pencil on titlepage. Minor wear and soiling to outer leaves. Very good. The second part of Fray Honorio Mossi's monumental Quechua-Spanish / Spanish-Quechua dictionary, this part being the.....
Halifax: Nova Scotia Printing Company, 1888. viii,286pp. Quarto. Original printed boards. Spine moderately chipped, extremities lightly worn. Modern ownership label on front pastedown. Some minor foxing in text. Gatherings loosening but still holding. About very good. Micmac dictionary compiled by the self-educated Baptist minister and Missionary, Silas Tertius Rand. Rand.....
Montréal. 1872. [2],104pp., with frontispiece photograph and in-text illustrations; two titlepages, in French and in Yakama. 16mo. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt ruled. Small closed tear to paper photograph mount, not affecting image. Moderate shelf wear. Bookplate on rear pastedown, institutional stamp on front free endpaper. Light tanning.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1851-1857. Six thick folio volumes. Numerous plates and maps, many tinted or in color. Uniformly bound in original publisher's cloth, front board and spine gilt, rear board stamped in blind. Volumes 1, 2, and 4 bound in green cloth; volumes 3, 5, and 6 in maroon cloth. Volumes.....
Mexico: Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. [10],128pp. Titlepage with ornamental border, engraved arms on the dedication leaf, and woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and initials. Small quarto. Slightly later mottled calf, boards with gilt borders, spine gilt with burgundy and brown morocco gilt labels (likely a remboîtage). Some wear and.....
