[Rarebooks] FS: Vetromile's "Indian Good Book" in orig. deluxe morocco. NY: 1857

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Vetromile, Eugene. INDIAN GOOD BOOK, Made by Eugene Vetromile, S.J. Indian Patriarch, for the Benefit of the Penobscot, Passamaquaddy, St. John's, Micmac and Other Tribes of the Abnaki Indians... Second Edition. New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother. 1857. 12mo. 449,(1)pp. plus a leaf of errata between pages 12 and 13. Illustrated with 8 fine tinted lithograph views (by T. Strong of N. Y.), a full-page woodcut, and an engraved portrait of Mary. With numerous text woodcuts. Orig. publisher's deluxe gift binding of full black morocco, ornately gilt, with a central cross on both covers. A.e.g. Very nice copy.	$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
With the second title page in the Abnaki dialect. An American (State of Maine) and Canadian Indian prayer book in Abnaki, as well as sections in the languages of other tribes of the area. Field 1601. Ayer, INDIAN LINGUSITICS (Abnaki) 19 (citing the 3rd edition).


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