Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN INDIANS--SENECA.) Harris, Thompson; and James Young. Christ Hagonthahninoh Nonodagahyot / Christ's Sermon on the Mountain; and Gainoh ne Nenodowohga Neuwahnuhdah / Indian Hymns in the Seneca Tongue. 2 volumes in one, as issued. 12mo, contemporary brown cloth, minor wear; moderate foxing; original owner's inscriptions and bookplate, plus modern bookplate, on front endpapers. New York: American Tract Society, 1829
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The original owner was Laura West, teacher at the Cattaraugus Mission School. Pilling, Iroquois pages 76, 178; Sabin 79118; no others known at auction.
Bound into the end is a two-page printed poem in a different typeface, "Gainoh, P.M. / Uncertainty of Life," credited to Seneca chief Nathaniel T. Strong without pagination, imprint place or date. This is apparently Strong's original translation of a hymn, and may be an unrecorded mission imprint.