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Nez-Perces first book: designed for children and new beginners.
- Title
- Nez-Perces first book: designed for children and new beginners.
- Author
- Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874.
- Publication
- Clear Water [Or. Ter.] Mission Press, 1839.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KF 1839 (Spalding, H. H. Nez-Perces first book. (1st ed.)) | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Description
- 8 p. illus.; 14.5 x 11.5 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- First edition, May 1839, of which 400 copies were printed; the first book printed in the Nez Percés Indian language in an alphabet devised by the author. The 2d edition, August 1839 (500 copies) and later publications, were printed in the revised (Pickering) alphabet. cf. H.M. Ballou's "History of the Oregon Mission Press" in Oregon Hist. Soc. quarterly, v. 23, no. 1, March 1922.
- Call Number
- *KF 1839 (Spalding, H. H. Nez-Perces first book. (1st ed.))
- LCCN
- 24008536
- OCLC
- 14202744
- Author
- Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874.
- Title
- Nez-Perces first book: designed for children and new beginners.
- Imprint
- Clear Water [Or. Ter.] Mission Press, 1839.
- Local Note
- Photostat reproduction; p. 1-2, 7-8 from original in the Massachusetts Historical Society, p. 5-6 from original in the library of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; without reproductions of p. 3-4 (no copy known).Photostat reproductions of p. 1-2, 7-8, from 2 originals in the Oberlin College library bound in.With this is bound photostat reproduction of 2d edition, 1839.
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- *KF 1839 (Spalding, H. H. Nez-Perces first book. (1st ed.))