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[image: NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE IN THE POLAR SEAS AND REGIONS:
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR CLIMATE, GEOLOGY, AND NATURAL HISTORY; AND AN
ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE-FISHERY]
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NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE IN THE POLAR SEAS AND REGIONS: WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR CLIMATE, GEOLOGY, AND NATURAL HISTORY; AND AN
ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE-FISHERYLeslie, John, Sir (1766-1832). Jameson, Robert
(1774-1854). Murray, Hugh (1779-1846)
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*Place Published:* New York
*Publisher:* J. & J. Harper
*Date Published:* 1831
*Binding:* Hardcover
*Condition:* Near fine
*Book Id:* 491

*Description*

A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing (minor rubbing to
the spine ends and board corners, general toning to the binding, a tiny bit
of cracking to the front joint -- a Fine copy when compared to the
condition in which this title - in any printing - typically is found), in a
Very Good dust jacket (some wear and tear with two of the longer tears
being to the fold from the spine to the front panel and which perhaps was
original to the book or perhaps was made by a owner of the book, but which
certainly appears to be contemporary, and having a few tiny archival tape
repairs to the verso intended to stop the larger spits from expanding) with
hand-lettering to the spine, complete with the map and with all
illustrations called for -- several of which illustrations are bound at the
front of the book rather than at the respective pages specified for them --
a reasonably popular book of which multiple later printings were issued.
Copies of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original
binding are rather scarce to the market and those in a condition as nice as
is this copy are, in our experience, SCARCE INDEED.
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By This Author: Leslie, John, Sir (1766-1832). Jameson, Robert (1774-1854).
Murray, Hugh (1779-1846)
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[image: 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
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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,
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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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[image: A Guide to the County of Wicklow Illustrated by Engravings after
the Designs of George Petrie , Esq. and A Large Map of the County , from an
Original Survey]
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A Guide to the County of Wicklow Illustrated by Engravings after the
Designs of George Petrie , Esq. and A Large Map of the County , from an
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*Place Published:* Paternoster Row, London
*Publisher:* Printed for Baldwin, Cradock , and Joy
*Date Published:* 1822
*Binding:* 3/4 Leather with Marbled Boards
*Condition:* Fine
*Book Id:* 24

*Description*

A Guide to the County of Wicklow. Illustrated by Engravings, After the
Designs of George Petrie, Esq., and a Large Map of the County from an
Original Survey. A Very Good + of better copy of the SCARCE first edition,
first printing, beautifully rebound in half-leather with marbled boards and
marbling to the page block's closed edges; endpapers renewed; complete with
the folding map and all 5 Plates. Some of the illustrations show some
marginal staining (which must have occurred prior to the volume's original
binding up as the surrounding pages are free of it) and the large folding
map of the County shows some expected tears at the folds -- otherwise the
book is in about Fine condition. Located in eastern Ireland south of Dublin
and bordering the Irish Sea, the County is named after the town of Wicklow,
which itself derives from the Old Norse name Víkingaló, which means
"Vikings' Meadow", a testimony to its history. Known by many as "the Garden
of Ireland", the area also was a hotbed of Irish Rebellion for Centuries
and, following the 1798 Rebellion, the Rebels took refuge in the Wicklow
Mountains (the largest contiguous upland region in Ireland) from which the
English soldiers fought to dislodge them. In these more peaceful times, the
area is a popular recreational attraction and features the Wicklow Way, the
oldest waymarked long-distance walking trail in Ireland. SCARCE. IMAGES
AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
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By This Author: Wright, Rev. G. N. AM
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