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*1.*

Buch das Gut, enthaltened den Katechismus, Betrachtung, Gesang. [RARE
COMPLETE COPY WITH ALL THREE BOOKS] Die kaiserliche wie auch konigliche
Buchdruckerei hat es gedruckt in der kaiserlichen Stadt Wien in
Oesterreich.Kauder,
Christian; [Maillard, Pierre]
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*Place Published:* Vienna
*Publisher:* Wien
*Date Published:* 1866
*Edition:* First Edition, First Printing
*Binding:* Full leather
*Condition:* Very good
*Book Id:* 477

*Description*

A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, elegantly bound in
full leather with a decorative front board decorated in blind and with
metal spikes, compartmented spine decorated and lettered in gilt, page
block: all edges gilt (some splitting to the upper and lower regions were
the front board meets the spine as well as where the upper rear board meets
the spine, modest wear to the spine ends and board corners, the (blank)
front free endpaper is detached but present). The book's preliminary text
and intermittent headings are in German; the title page is both in German
and in Mi'kmaq ideograms; the text itself is in Mi'kmaq ideograms, such
ideograms created by 5703 pieces of type cut and cast especially for this
book, with the characters representing words rather than sounds. [In 1652,
Father Gabriel Druillettes, a Jesuit missionary to the Abenaki, reported
seeing the Mi'kmaq -- also known as the "Micmac" -- use ideograms. Father
Druillettes stated: "Some of them wrote out their lessons in their own
manner. They made use of a small piece of charcoal instead of a pen, and a
piece of bark instead of paper. Their characters are novel, and so
individual that one could not know or understand the writing of the other;
that is to say, that they made use of certain marks according to their own
ideas as of a local memory to preserve the points and the articles and the
maxims which they had remembered. They carried away this paper with them to
study in the repose of the night." [Notably, Mi'kmaq ideograms are the
OLDEST KNOWN NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING NORTH OF WHAT IS NOW MEXICO.] Such
form of communication required extensive development and expansion before
the Christian religion could be communicated to, and recorded in writing
for the use of, the Mi'kmaq peoples. Father Christian Leclercq, an
accomplished linguist, learned the Mi'kmaw system,and expanded it with
Mi'kmaw-esque symbols to express and communicate Judeo-Christian concepts
that previously had no representation in the Mi'kmaw symbology. [In 1691 he
published "Nouvelle relation de la Gaspésie" in Paris, wherein he discusses
his development of this writing system and states, in part "... our Lord
inspired me with the idea of them the second year of my mission, when being
much embarrassed as to the method by which I should teach the Indians to
pray to God, I notice that some children were making marks with charcoal
upon birch-bark, and were counting these with the finger very accurately at
each word of prayers which they pronounced. This made me believe that by
giving them some formulary, which would aid their memory by definite
characters, I should advance much more quickly than by teaching them
through the method of making them repeat a number of times that which I
said to them. They preserve these instructive papers with so much care, and
they have for them so particular an esteem, that they keep them very neatly
in little cases of birch-bark bedecked with wampum, with beadwork, and with
porcupine quills."] Leclercq's work was later either improved upon, or
created anew, by Abbe Pierre Maillard who published a grammar of the
language that perhaps was independent of Le Clercq's, and to which Maillard
devoted 8 years. Kauder then produced his work, with this book being the
result of approximately a decade of work by Kauder among the Mi'kmaq
peoples of Nova Scotia and eastern Canada. [According to information found
in researching this matter, a careful examination of the symbols used by
Kauder allows one to distinguish between some of the Mi'kmaw's original
symbols -- each of which mnemonically represented an entire sentence or
verse, and a substantial number of arbitrary designs added to express ideas
and words which were not Native American. For example, the symbol used in
this work for Niskam (God) is a triangle which represents the Christian
concept of the holy trinity. Three other ideograms incorporating the
triangle are used to represent the Trinity's constituent members, the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Curlicues were incorporated with the symbols,
intended to represent the peculiarities of the Mi'kmaw grammar as
understood by Kauder.] The entire text was published in both three separate
volumes and in this single volume containing all three: Erster Band. Der
Katechismus. [First Volume. The Catechism.]; Zweiter Band. Das
Betrachtungsbuch. [Second volume. The Viewing Book.]; and Dritter Band. Das
Gesangbuch. [Third Volume. The Hymnal.]. The volume contains a frontispiece
featuring Jesus the Christ on the cross, and each of the three component
books has its own frontispiece, with all four illustrations having a tissue
guard. The book, both in its three single volumes and in this comprehensive
form, were contemporaneously printed and issued in Vienna. Most copies were
lost at sea, in consequence of which only a few made it to North America.
[The work was reprinted in 1921 by The Micmac Messenger, Ristigouche,
Quebec, the first in which English language front matter has been added,
and the preface and chapter headings are printed in English and French. We
have not located any other published works using these ideograms, and the
Preface to the 1921 printing states that -- as of then of course -- no
other such works existed.] WorldCat reveals only one other copy of the book
herein described, that being located at the Royal Ontario Museum. [A
careful reading of the WorldCat entries indicates that another copy was or
is held by the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John. Ottawa. The balance of the
copies listed on WorldCat are reproductions.] A Very Good copy of this
COMPLETE FIRST EDITION; a highly-notable work enabling communication
between two quite different groups of people and being RARE INDEED. [Note:
The Mi'kmaq Nation is a member of the Wabanaki Confederacy that controlled
northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes. The Micmacs are original
natives of the Nova Scotia/New Brunswick region and are among the first
Indians to have an affiliation with the Europeans, and they were strongly
influenced by the Roman Catholic religion. They also settled in locations
in Quebec, Newfoundland, and Maine. Today, most Mi'kmaq people live on the
Canadian side of the border, but the Aroostook Micmacs live in northeastern
Maine.]
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By This Author: Kauder, Christian; [Maillard, Pierre]
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*2.*
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Selected Poems of Octavio PazPaz, Octavio; Rukeyser, Muriel [Translator]
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*Place Published:* Bloomington, IN
*Publisher:* Indiana University Press
*Date Published:* 1963
*Edition:* First Edition, First Printing: Publisher's Complimentary Copy
*Binding:* Hardcover
*Condition:* Very good
*Book Id:* 362

*Description*

A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's
original red cloth (corners bumped), in a Fine dust jacket; a bilingual
collection of Poems by Octavio Paz, translated by Muriel Rukeyser; a
Publisher's complimentary copy with the Compliments Slip loosely laid in.
Octavio Paz won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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*3.*

[image: Descriptiones tubulorum marinorum : in quorum censum relati lapides
caudæ cancri Gesneri, & his similes : Belemnitæ, eorum que alueoli,
secundum dispositionem musei Kleiniani : addita est Dissertatio epistolaris
de pilis marinis : cum figuris.]
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Descriptiones tubulorum marinorum : in quorum censum relati lapides caudæ
cancri Gesneri, & his similes : Belemnitæ, eorum que alueoli, secundum
dispositionem musei Kleiniani : addita est Dissertatio epistolaris de pilis
marinis : cum figuris.Klein, Jacob Theodor
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*Place Published:* Danzig
*Publisher:* Knochium
*Date Published:* 1731
*Edition:* First Edition, First Printing
*Binding:* Hardcover
*Condition:* Very good
*Book Id:* 16

*Description*

A Very Good copy of the RARE TO THE MARKET FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of
Descriptiones Tabulorum Marinorum : In Qvorum Censum Relati Lapides Caudæ
Cancri Gesneri, & his similes; Belemnitæ ; Eorumqve Alveoli. Secundum
Ddispositionem Musei Kleiniani : addita est Dissertatio epistolaris de
pilis marinis : cum figuris; complete with all 10 illustrations to the
rear. Jacob Theodor Klein (1685 - 1759) was a German Botanist, Zoologist,
Mathematician, Historian, and Jurist, as well as a Diplomat in service to
Polish King August II the Strong. Klein's work in natural science was
highly-regarded, and he was awarded membership in a number of scientific
societies, including in The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal
Society of London for Improving Knowledge (generally referred to as the
"Royal Society" -- a Society which still exists and the purpose of which is
to promote science and its benefits, recognize excellence in science,
support outstanding science, provide scientific advice of policy, foster
international and global cooperation, and to provide education and public
engagement) and in the Danzig Research Society, a highly-regarded Society
founded in Danzig by Daniel Gralath (1708 - 1767), Jacob Theodor Klein's
son-in-law. Notable members included Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Michael
Christoph Hanow, Gottfried Lengnich, Johann Jacob Mascov, and Daniel
Gabriel Farenheit. While the book 117 WorldCat member libraries in various
forms, WorldCat reveals only 21 copies of the 1731 first edition held in
book form. A well-received and notable work, at least 31 editions were
published beginning with the first edition in 1731. Given that WorldCat
shows relatively few copies from the 1700s being held in book form -- and
only 21 copies of the first edition, first printing being held in book form
-- we conclude that the first edition was not published in large numbers.
Not only being SCARCE, this copy has a REMARKABLE PROVENANCE having
belonged to Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) the prominent American
zoologist known for his collection and classification of many new species
of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic
basis. An interesting Biographical Memoir of Kofoid by Richard B.
Goldschmidt was published by the National Academy of Sciences. His
bookplate graces the volume's front pastedown. The book thereafter belonged
to John Sinkankas, a noted gemologist, gem carver and gem faceter, as well
as the author of numerous books and articles on minerals and gemstones.
Sinkankas also was a bookseller and bibliographer of rare books. His signed
bookplate also is affixed (with that of Charles Atwood Kofind) to the front
pastedown. A REMARKABLE COPY OF A SCARCE AND NOTABLE BOOK. IMAGES AVAILABLE
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Torchbearers: Miriam Wright's Copy, SIGNED BY BOTH KRISHNA AND WRIGHTKrishna,
Kamala [Wright, Miriam; Wright, Frank Lloyd]
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*Place Published:* Chicago
*Publisher:* Solar Logos Publishing Co.
*Date Published:* 1925
*Edition:* First Edition
*Condition:* Very good
*Book Id:* 25

*Description*

A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (a few small water
spots to the front board, spine lettering dulled, light edge wear, some
tiny folds to a number of page corners); MIRIAM LLOYD WRIGHT'S COPY,
INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR, KAMALA KRISHNA, TO MIRIAM LLOYD
WRIGHT (Frank Lloyd Wright's second wife) AND SIGNED BY MIRIAM LLOYD WRIGHT
AS WELL. A Very Good ASSOCIATION COPY WITH A REMARKABLE PROVENANCE. IMAGES
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