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London: A. W. Bennett. Good with no dust jacket. [1861]. Hardcover. Boards rubbed and faded. Corners of boards soft, with 3/8" chips to cloth. Spine heavily rubbed and worn with loss of cloth at head and tail and to front joint. Binding shaken with some gatherings loosened, almost detached. Frontispiece with foxing and small stain. Some spots of foxing throughout. ; No date [1861]. vi, [2], 278 pages + 16 plates (including frontispiece ) + [2], 24 pages advertisements. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt lettering and small gilt device on spine. Spine title: "Peter Jones / and the / Ojebway / Indians / [device] / A. W. Bennett". Pale yellow endpapers. Page dimensions: 190 x 124mm (7 1/2" x 4 7/8"). [Bibliographical reference: Sabin 36590 - "Reissued without a date."] Provenance: near contemporary owner's signature: "William Telford / Clifton May th4 1866". .
History of the Ojebway Indians; with Especial Reference to Their Conversion to Christianity by Jones, Rev. Peter - 1861
by Jones, Rev. Peter
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History of the Ojebway Indians; with Especial Reference to Their Conversion to Christianity
by Jones, Rev. Peter
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London: A.W. Bennett, 1861. First Edition. Leatherbound. Ex library - Good. vi, 278 p. 16 b&w plates including frontispiece portrait of Kahkewaquonaby (Rev. Peter Jones). Half leather with brown cloth, attractive gilt trimmed spine. Top edge gilt. Library marks on top and bottom edges of text block and rear of title page. Dampstains to plates in first half of book. Presentation copy inscribed by Jones' eldest son in 1872 to Sir Francis Hincks, at the time Federal Finance Minister. Signature (pp. 21-28) coming loose. Prelims dampstained and title page has pink marks. New endpapers.
With an introductory note by Rev. G. Osborn. Topics include Ojebway origins, mode of life, marriage, religion, councils, war, amusements, diseases, names, languages. Also discussion of controversial subjects like the evils introudced by whites, whisky, capacity for receiving instruction, opinion of the Indians respecting the Sovereign and people of Great Britain, future prospects. Sabin 36590. TPL 4070. Howes 238.
With an introductory note by Rev. G. Osborn. Topics include Ojebway origins, mode of life, marriage, religion, councils, war, amusements, diseases, names, languages. Also discussion of controversial subjects like the evils introudced by whites, whisky, capacity for receiving instruction, opinion of the Indians respecting the Sovereign and people of Great Britain, future prospects. Sabin 36590. TPL 4070. Howes 238.
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- Date Published 1861
- Keywords History, First Nations, Native Americans, Ojibwa, Chippewa, Missionaries, Methodism
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History of the Ojebway Indians; with especial reference to their Conversion to Christianity
by Jones, Peter (Rev.); with Preface and Life by Rev. G. Osborn
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