1863 Native American Bible Mi'kmaq Indian Language
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Hello, and thanks for looking. Bidders from any nation are welcome. Please see photos at top left with zoom and enlargement features Here offered: Tan Teladakadidjik Apostalewidjik Ae Akts Ov De Aposelz In Mikmak [Acts of the Apostles in Mi'kmaq] Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society by Isaac Pitman at Bath, England 1863 Translation by Silas Tertius Rand Measures 6.5 x 4.25 inches 140 pages Unsophisticated unrestored leather-bound first edition of ACTS in Mi'kmaq. Binding is sound despite chipping to spine. No wobble to the boards, hinges uncracked, no loose pages. Endpapers present; all pages clean. Small binder's ticket of Watkins to rear pastedown. You may wish to consult the interesting article by Richard Flavin "Mi'kmaq Shorthand" available online; Rand is noted in the last paragraphs. However, despite the Isaac Pitman imprint of our volume, Rand's prefatory notes to his Micmac Dictionary and a comparison of various forms of shorthand will clarify that while this translation is not in Mi'kmaq script, neither is it shorthand. From Wikipedia:" " The Míkmaq (pronounced [mi ː ɡ max] ) are a First Nations (Native American) people, indigenous to northeastern New England, Canada's Atlantic Provinces, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. The nation has a population of about 40,000 of whom nearly 11,000 speak the
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