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OWNED BY A DELAWARE
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Zeisberger, David.
Delaware Indian and English
Spelling Book for the Schools of the Mission of the United Brethren.
179 pages.
12mo, contemporary
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calf, moderate wear; leaf A3 worn with slight loss of text, moderate
edge wear and short closed tears to several leaves, lacking rear free endpaper; several early
ownership inscriptions to endpapers and final leaf, label remnant on title page.
Philadelphia: Mary Cist, 1806
[3,000/4,000]
Second edition, revised by the author. Contains a Delaware-to-English phrase book, a history of the
Bible in parallel Delaware and English, notes on Delaware grammar, and more. On the verso of the
final leaf is inscribed “Bought of Joseph Demming[?], a Delaware Indian,Western District, Upper
Canada.” Passages in Delaware are inscribed on the verso of the title page and on the rear free end-
paper. Church 1299; Sabin 106299; Shaw & Shoemaker 11914.The first known at auction since
the 1999 Siebert sale.
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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Catlin, George.
North American Indians.
2 maps,
one of them a folding colored map; profusion of engraved illustrations after Catlin’s paint-
ings. ix, [1], 298; xii, 303, [1] pages. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, uniform publisher’s gilt pictorial
cloth, minor wear; moderate dampstaining affecting rear cover and final four leaves; uncut;
small bookseller’s tag of Charles E. Lauriat on first front free endpaper.
Edinburgh, 1903; London, 1880
[300/400]
Later mixed edition of Catlin’s Letters and Notes on . . . North American Indians, not listed in
Howes or other sources.
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