[Rarebooks] FS: Indian Chief converted by Moravians, 1842

[Bob Petrilla]

American Sunday-School Union. TSCHOOP: THE CONVERTED INDIAN CHIEF.  Written
for the American Sunday-School Union, and Revised by the Committee of
Publication. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, (1842).
First Edition.  36pp.  Bound in black-morocco-backed marbled boards; top of
spine scuffed, light foxing.  5.75" x 3.75".

This book centers on Moravian missions to the Native Americans of Georgia
and the Mohicans of New York State. Tschoop was a Mohican Chief.
Provenance: Old pastedown bookplate of the Sunday School Library of St.
John's Church, Elizabeth, N.J. Inked on the free endpaper, "From Rev. T.D.
Harari."  [Field, Indian Bibliography 1578.  American Imprints 42-4890.
Eberstadt 103:138.]   $125.00

Postpaid in US.  Usual trade terms.



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