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[NATIVE AMERICANA]. A Collection of Chippeway and English Hymns. Peter Jones, translator. NY: Carlton & Porter for the Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, n.d. [ca 1847]. Presumed second edition.
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[NATIVE AMERICANA]. A Collection of Chippeway and English Hymns. Peter Jones, translator. New York: Carlton & Porter for the Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, n.d. [ca 1847]. 

24mo. With a second title-page printed in Ojibway; text in English and Ojibway throughout. Contemporary calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (repairs to spine, hinges and corners, some light wear); slipcase. Provenance: Library Los Angeles County Museum (stamp on verso of title-page); Library Natural History Museum (discard stamp on paste-down).  

Presumed second edition, with "Advertisement to the Second Edition" on p. 3 dated 1847. See Sabin 36589 (the edition published by Lane and Tippett). RARE: We find no copies of any edition of Jones's translation at auction in 40 years. 

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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