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CANADA
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For the
MORAVIAN MISSION in Labrador
(A Testamentetokak). Bible. O.T. Eskimo (Labrador). Morhardt-Erdmann. Selections. 1871. Testamentetokak Hiobib aglangit, Salomoblo imgerusersoanga tikkilugit. Stolpen [Netherlands]: Gustav Winterib Nênerlauktangit, 1871. 12mo (20 cm; 8"). 274 pp.
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Labrador Eskimo, i.e., Inuktitut, in roman script. Darlow and Moule write of this work: “The publication of this section of the O.T., Job - Song of Solomon, completed the version of the Bible in Labrador Eskimo. For this edition the Psalter and Proverbs [transl. Morhardt] were revised; but Job, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon, translated by F. Erdmann, appear for the first time in the present volume.” Pilling says the attribution of the three new books to Erdman is based “on the authority of Dr. Rink.” 
• Darlow & Moule 3520; Pilling, Eskimo, p. 30; North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 377; Banks (rev. ed.), Books in Native Languages, 75; Evans, Masinahikan, 299; Lande, Moravian Missions, 51. Publisher's black cloth. Excellent copy. (34884)
American
Ostervald —
For FRENCH-Reading Users,
1824 Bible.
N.T. French. 1824. Ostervald.
Le nouveau testament de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ... seconde édition
Américaine. Boston: J.H.A. Frost, 1824. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.1"). 379, [5 (1
blank)] pp.
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French
Canadians and French émigrés in the
United States, this is a good example of an early American printing of a complete
Testament, either Old or New, in French.
• Shoemaker 15382. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and abraded, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with early numerical inscription. Outer margins of last few leaves waterstained; some pages with mild cockling or light spotting, others with varying degrees of age-toning. (6030)
Micmac
National Anthem —
Words in French
& Micmac
Clergue,
Omer. [drop-title] Chant national des
Micmacs. Musique de Omer Clergue, Prof. au Conservatoire de Toulouse. Paroles
du R. P. Sébastien, O. M. C. [N.p., Ristigouche?: n.d., ca. 1910?]. 8vo.
4 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Only one copy traced via OCLC — this, in Germany! — with the Souvenir seeming also to be very little held in libraries; WorldCat locates only three institutions reporting ownership.
• Not in Banks. Not in Evans. One leaf, folded. First page with half-inch long tear and another smaller tear at upper left corner, not touching text. Near fine. (14758)
"I wish she would write
a Jalna book a year for the rest of her life . . ." De la Roche, Mazo. The building of Jalna. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1944. 8vo. [4] ff. 366 pp.
• Very good condition with a good+ dust jacket (small tears, price clipped from front flap). (3169)
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New
Homes, NEW
HEARTS
Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Christmas-time aboard the westbound express train from
Winnipeg. Written by a Canadian-born journalist, this sentimental tale (meant
for grownups who love children rather than the children themselves) is here
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green,
mounted on green paper, with additional in-text decorations done by Harold J.
Turner and printed in green.
Binding: Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback, front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
• Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)
Hymns & Prayers for
Arctic-Dwelling Indians Kirby, William West. Hymns, prayers and instruction in the Chipewyan language. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1924). 16mo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 91, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. only the copy at Cornell.
Both editions are reprintings of the London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881 edition, which also is little held.
The work is printed in syllabic characters, with headings in English. The hymns are without the music.
• None of the editions are listed in Banks; or Evans; or Newberry Library, Ayer Indians. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in black; light discoloration of fore-edges of the closed volume. Very good. (37012)
A CANADIAN's
First & Last APPEARANCE
Sturrock, W. A military mite to the mountain of literature, or, The rhymes of a red coat. Quebec: Middleton & Dawson, 1858. 12mo (16.5 cm; 6.375"). 40 pp., [2] ff. .
Click the image for an enlargement.• TPL 5826. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards, outer corners chipped and a lighter spot to front cover where there once was an old label of some sort affecting one word of type (“Price”); old, light waterstaining (with a darker edge) and some soiling to same cover, with evidence of the onetime moisture visible also to back cover and intermittently in the interior (especially to early leaves). Fragile. (25512)
Only the Second Known Copy?Waterville College. Bell-a! Horrid-a bell-a! Inaugural ceremonies at the coronation of John Tupper Champlin. [Maine?]: No publisher/printer, 1853. 8vo (23 cm; 9") 4 pp.
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The caption title reads: “Smith, with a copy of the 'Fugitive Slave Law,' eagerly inquiring the way to Canada.” The text printed within a wavy border.
WorldCat locates only the copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this being its deaccessioned duplicate.
• Old folds, dust-soiled, other stains. Evidence of old stitching. A decent copy of a rarity. (38404)
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