[Rarebooks] FS: Cree Indian text Catechism & Prayers, etc. Montreal: 1886

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[Lacombe, Albert]. PRIERES CANTIQUES CATECHISME, ETC. EN LANGUE CRISE... 
[title repeated in the Cree language, written in the Cree alphabet]. Montreal: C. 
O. Beauchemin & Fils. 1886. Sm. 8vo. xxxii,412pp. Written in Cree. Illustrated 
with a frontispiece & numerous text woodcuts (many full-page). Orig. green 
cloth, blind & gilt stamped. Ecclesiastical devices embossed on both covers. A 
presentation copy, inscribed on the recto of the frontis., from Lacombe to 
Monsignor Brondel (of Helena, Montana). Oval ecclesiastical blind stamp on title. 
A fine copy.     $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Lacombe (1827-1916), of partial Ojibway Indian descent, lived among the Cree 
as early as 1852. He was the first priest in the Oblate Order to come to the 
area of Alberta. He wrote numerous books in the Cree language, including a 
dictionary and a grammar. OCLC lists 8 copies of this edition, but only 2 are in 
the U.S. (NYPL & Yale), 6 in Canada.

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