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Boston & London: Ginn & Company, 1901. xxv,384pp. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine label lacking. Bookplate of John Lawson on front pastedown. Cloth lightly worn and lightly discolored on front cover. Internally near fine. Very good. The foundational Inuit grammar, by the Jesuit scholar and missionary, Father Francis Barnum (1849-1921).....
[Nuuk, Greenland: Hinrich Rink, 1862-1946, lacking the years 1884-91, 1894- 95, 1901-03]. Eighty-five volumes. Replete with illustrations, many in color. Some issues loose. First volume in original limp patterned cloth. Second volume in cloth- backed printed boards, spine repaired. Third volume in cloth-backed boards, spine worn. Fourth volume with lower.....
New York: American Bible Society, 1875. iv,717pp. Contemporary calf, ornate blind- stamped covers, gilt-lettered spine, neatly recased. Rubbed. Scattered foxing, pencil scribblings on both pastedowns. Small, chipped broadsheet of religious hymnals laid in. Good. Third edition, after editions of 1844 and 1856. "The A.B.S. Report for 1844 states that this.....
Paris: François Clovzier, 1664. [24],432pp. Woodcut decorations. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, ruled in blind, spine richly gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Lightly rubbed, some loss to gilding on spine. Quite clean internally. A very good copy. One of the primary sources for the French ventures in Guiana. Biet was.....
Auxerre, [France]: Gilles Bouquet, 1665/1666/1664. Three titles bound in one volume. [16],480; 415 (without the inserted signature à4 found in some copies; 70pp, including full-page woodcut. Text in double columns in French and Carib. Small octavo. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine richly gilt, raised bands. Boards rubbed and edge worn.....
London: Printed for the Author, by William Richardson, 1779. [24],xvi,17-543,[1]pp. plus five plates and two folding maps. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather labels. Text a bit tanned with minor foxing in places, a few later pencil marks in the margins. A bit of.....
Harbor Springs, Mi. Holy Childhood Indian School Print, 1898. 32pp., including woodcut title vignette and tailpiece. 16mo. Original half cloth and marbled boards. Light shelf wear. Internally clean. Near fine. A prayer book in the Chippewa language, printed by Chippewa and Ottawa mission children at the Franciscan mission at Harbor.....
Milwaukee. 1907. 511pp., including illustrations. Contemporary half black sheep and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends lightly worn, front hinge cracked, but holding. Internally clean. Very good. Daily selections from the Epistles and Gospels, with accompanying sermon or instruction, all in Chippewa and illustrated by numerous attractive wood engravings. Father.....
Richmond. 1872. 252pp. 16mo. Contemporary sheep spine with marbled boards. Spine and corners worn, ends chipped. Internally clean. Very good. Styled the "sixth edition" on the titlepage. Hargrett credits this work to Alfred Wright and Cyrus Byington, first published in Boston in 1830. Missionaries among the Choctaw for decades, they.....
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1863. 175pp. plus plate and frontispiece. 12mo. Original brown pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed, lightly faded and edgeworn. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown. An occasional fox mark. Very good overall. The famed missionary's account of his travels as U.S. army chaplain.....
[Cambridge, Ma. Samuel Green, 1663]. Single leaf, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Small quarto. Minor staining and toning. Small closed tear to bottom of leaf, not affecting text, and small closed tear to top of leaf just touching text. Good margins. Very good. A leaf from the first edition.....
New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863. xiv,[2],44pp. Tall, narrow quarto. Original plain wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn along spine and edges. Dampstain in lower margin throughout, scattered foxing. Still about very good, unopened and untrimmed. Supposedly issued in an edition of 100 copies, though the same work was also issued as a......
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.....
Honolulu: Ka Na Misionari Mea Pai, 1841. 423pp. printed in double columns. 12mo. Contemporary calf, hinges expertly repaired. Minor edge wear. Early library ink note on front free endpaper. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. The third printing of the New Testament in Hawaiian, following editions in 1835 and 1837 (noted.....
London. 1858. viii,247pp. Folding frontispiece map. Half title. 16mo. Original color pictorial boards, backstrip neatly replaced. Tiny closed tear in map near mounting stub. Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Includes descriptions of the Gold Rush, which had begun the same year as the publication of this work and radically.....
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.....
Monteal [sic]: J.M. Valois, 1892. xi,[1],384pp. 16mo. Original black pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Institutional stamp on front fly leaf and titlepage. Pages lightly tanned. An early state of the second edition of this work, with "Montreal" misspelled on the titlepage. Very good. An early state of the second edition of.....
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.....
New York: American Bible Society, 1876. 32pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g. Front hinge cracked, spine and edges worn, boards scuffed. Remnants of shelf label at spine foot, Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown, institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf, otherwise internally clean.....
New York: American Bible Society, 1875. 73pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered, t.e.g. Front hinge cracked, light edge wear, corners and spine ends worn. Shelf label at spine foot, Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown, institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Good. A.....
New York: American Bible Society, 1880. 99pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered, t.e.g. Front board detached, corners and spine ends worn, boards rubbed. Shelf label at spine foot, Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown, institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Front endpapers detaching.....
Nipigon, Ontario. 1931. 136,370pp., including illustrations, plus plates. Half title. 12mo. Original half burgundy cloth and brown cloth boards stamped in blind, spine gilt. Edges stained red. Text with light, even tanning. Near fine. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Produced by Rev. T.A. Desautels, a Jesuit in Nipigon, Ontario, this.....
Cincinnati. 1847. 189pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original leather label preserved. Corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary inscription on fly leaf. Moderate foxing. About very good. First edition, second issue, with corrections made on pages 31 and 121 and without the errata slip tipped in at page 189. 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.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. xv,[1],352pp. plus folding frontispiece map and 16pp. of advertisements. Publisher's blindstamped red cloth, rebacked in matching cloth, new paper label. Light wear to extremities, minor soiling to boards, front hinge starting. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, one-inch tear in front free endpaper, folding map.....
