ZEISBERGER'S INDIAN DICTIONARY
English, German, Iroquois - the Onondaga
and Algonquin - the Delaware
Printed from the
Original Manuscript
in
Harvard College Library
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Large hard cover no dust jacket; 236 pages; Size Approx. 8 1/2 X 11.
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Published by John Wilson and Son, Cambridge; 1887; first edition.
Details: This is a very rare dictionary of the Onodaga and Delaware indian languages. It is set up in a four column format, with English in the first column, German in the second, Onondaga in the third and Delaware in the fourth.
David Zeisberger was born at Zeuchtenthal, Moravia, April 11, 1721. He began his labors as a Moravian missionary in America in 1740 and continued them uninterruptedly for more than sixty years. He died in 1808 at Goshen, in the valley of the Tuscarawas, Ohio. He labored chiefly among the Delaware Indians in the Ohio region. In 1745 he took part in arranging the treaty that allied the Six Nations with the English, and in 1791 he established a Delaware settlement in Fairfield on the banks of the Thames River in Upper Canada. He helped found the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The dictionary was prepared for the press from Zeisberger's manuscript in the library at Harvard College by Eben Norton Horsford.
It is bound in the original terra cotta cloth, with a pebble grain and triple blind-stamped bands across the top and bottom of the front cover, gilt lettering on spine.
A rare opportunity to acquire this scarce volume.
Condition: With very light wear at corners and spine ends, It is in near fine condition, solid binding and clean pages, no names or markings, no torn pages or bent corners.
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