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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-FISHERY



Stephen Johnson
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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,
> 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
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> *Description*
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> 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
> Original SurveyWright, Rev. G. N. AM
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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*
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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
> 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
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> By This Author: Wright, Rev. G. N. AM
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