Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN MICMAC.) [Rand, Silas T.; translator.] Pela Kesagunoodumumkawa tan tila Uksakumanenoo Westwoolkw' Sasoogoole Clistawit ootenink. [Gospel of St. Matthew in Micmac.] 126 pages. bound with: [The Gospel of St. Mark, the Gospel of St. Luke and 1 Romans through Revelations in Micmac]. Each unpaginated and without separate titles, but with separate signatures. With a 4-page address titled Pestoonumugawa appended to the last work [as issued]. Together, 4 volumes in one. 12mo, early 1/4 morocco, worn; lacks front pastedown, ink inscription on front free endpaper. Chebooktook [i.e. Halifax], 1871[-74]

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According to Darlow and Moule, the 3 books of the New Testament bound with this copy of the Gospel of St. Matthew were issued without titles. Sabin 67760 (for the Gospel of St. Matthew only); Pilling, Algonquian, page 420; Ayer, Micmac 5, 6, 8 and 12; D&M 6788, 6790, 6791, and 6792.