Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN MOHAWK.) Ne Raorihwadogenhti ne Shongwayaner Yesus Keristus / The Gospel of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, According to Saint Luke, Translated into the Mohawk Language. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, moderate wear, rejointed; moderate foxing; early owners' inscriptions on flyleaves, later bookplate on front pastedown. New York, 1833
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Revised second edition. Mohawk and English text on facing pages. Translated by Canadian Mohawk Henry A. Hill, and revised by an English Canadian named John A. Wilkes. Darlow & Moule 6802; Pilling, Iroquois, page 84. Only one other copy known at auction, at the Siebert sale in 1999.