•  Darlow & Moule 3025; Pilling, Algonquian, 257. On James, see: Dictionary of American Biography, IX, 576.   Period-style quarter tan cloth with light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Pages foxed. One leaf with tear from upper margin extending into top five lines of text, without loss; two leaves with inner margins repaired some time ago. (21002)

•  Darlow & Moule 6985. Recent full morocco framed in gilt double fillets, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped title, signed by Grace Bindings in blind at inner area of rear cover, lower turn-in. Pages age-toned and paper a bit brittle; one leaf with short tear from outer margin, extending into text.

The New York printing firm of M'Elrath, Bangs & Herbert is very interesting. Its principal Samuel Bangs was in the city (and with those partners) only for a short period, after his disastrous experience with the Mina Expedition and prior to moving to Texas permanently and becoming its first printer.

•  Mark: Darlow & Moule 6800; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Mohawk 4; Pilling, Proof-Sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians, 439. On Sam Bangs in the printing firm of M'Elrath, Bangs & Herbert, see: Spell, Pioneer Printer, p. 63–64. Recent quarter cloth shelfback with blue-green paper sides in the style of American bindings of the period. Small pressure-stamp of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and with two different copies of its library regulations laid in. A very good copy of an uncommon indigenous-language item.

The presence of the “Select passages from the Holy Scriptures” and the hymnal is most uncommon in these ad hoc volumes of Bible parts. The hymns are without music. There is one illustration, a crucifixion, in John.

The first complete translation of the New Testament into Ojibwa appeared in 1833 and was the effort of Edwin Jones, a surgeon in the U.S. Army (with the help of John Taylor, a U.S. army interpreter). The second translation was by Henry Blatchford and appeared in 1844. O’Meara’s is the third translation and the first printed in Canada.

•  Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2830 (who lists it as by James rather than Frederick O’Meara); Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Chippewa-32; Darlow & Moule 3034. Recent quarter calf, old style; raised bands, gilt ruling above and below the bands as accents, gilt center devices in spine compartments. Deep red spine label lettered in gilt; marbled paper sides. One corner-tip of title-page lost; no other chips or tattering, and the text is quite clean. A very good copy of an uncommon indigenous language item.

The translation used was Silas Rand's.

As plain as the binding may be, it has a binder's ticket: "Watkins Binder."

•  Darlow & Moule 6786; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Micmac 11; Pilling, Proof-Sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians, 3181g. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, slightly discolored. Spine damaged with loss of leather, and joints giving way. Internally a very good copy. Now housed in a simple acid-free phase box.

•  Banks, p. 94; Pilling, Algonquian, p. 421; Darlow & Moule 6786; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Micmac 11; Pilling, Proof-Sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians, 3181g. Original sprinkled sheep, spine worn with loss of leather and joints opening from top and bottom. Interior very good.

•  Darlow & Moule 6788 and 6789. Contemporary purple cloth in imitation of pebbled morocco. Binding lightly rubbed; hinges starting. Overall an impressively good copy.

•  Pilling, Algonquian, p. 420; Banks, p. 95; Evans 521; Darlow & Moule 6788. Not in Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection. Original pebble-textured cloth. Very good. Please note that Micmac's diacriticals do not readily accept HTML'ing — if fully correct transcription of this book's title is important to you, please ask for a fax.

•  The "Matthew" above bound by itself — yes, a second copy.

•  Darlow & Moule 6788. Contemporary black cloth in imitation of pebbled morocco. Binding lightly spotted. Overall an impressively good copy.

•  Banks, p. 38; Evans 83; Pilling, Algonquian, p. 245; Darlow & Moule 3118, who state it is a new edition of 3113; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Cree-19. Original limp cloth. A fine copy.