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Lot 73
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021
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Nov 10, 2021
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[BIBLE, in Cree] [The New Testament in the Cree Language.] Rev. William Mason, translator. London: W. M. Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1859.
8vo (184 x 117 mm). Printed in Cree syllabics throughout. Contemporary sheep by Watkins with their ticket (some discreet repairs to hinges and spine).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST NEW TESTAMENT PRINTED IN CREE. Methodist (later Anglican) William Mason and his wife Sophia Thomas Mason translated several editions of the Gospel of St. John in the Plains Cree dialect between 1851 and 1857. Following the publication of this edition of the New Testament, they published an edition of the whole Bible translated into Plains Cree in 1861-1862. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We trace no copies of this edition of the New Testament at auction since 1976.
Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum