• Forty-six select scripture narratives from the Old Testament : embellished with engravings, for the use of Indian youth / translated into Delaware Indian by A. Luckenbach

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Language:
  • Delaware
Extent:
  • xvi, 304 pages : illustrations (wood-engravings) ; 18 cm
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Texts
Description:
  • Added t.p.: Newinachke & guttasch pipinasiki gisehekhasiki elekpanni wendenasiki untschi Mechoweki Nachgundowoagani bambil gischitasik elleniechsink untschi A. Luckenbach ...
  • Signed and dated: Abraham Luckenbach, New Fairfield, River Thames, U.C., April 8th, 1836.
  • Contains a large number of wood engravings. Ill. on p. [70], 261 signed "A.A." and ill. on p. 48, 198, 220 signed "Anderson" (Alexander Anderson); ill. on p. 192, 289 signed "[reverse C or G]G (possibly George Gilbert or Christian Gobrecht). Cf. Hamilton; others unsigned.
Publisher:
  • New-York : Printed by Daniel Fanshaw, No. 150, Nassau-Street, 1838.
Subject:
  • Bible. Old Testament
  • Delaware language—Texts
  • Delaware Indians
  • Indigenous Studies
Title sort:
  • Forty-six select scripture narratives from the Old Testament : embellished with engravings, for the use of Indian youth / translated into Delaware Indian by A. Luckenbach.
References:
  • Sabin, 42629
  • Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages, p. 318-319
  • Hamilton, S. Amer. book ill. (1968 ed.), p. 83
Contributor:
  • Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books
Created:
  • 1838-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1838
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcms35tk91h
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Range label:
  • Logical
Uniform title:
  • Bible. Old Testament. Selections. Delaware. 1838
Text language:
  • Preface in Enlish and Delaware.
Translator:
  • Luckenbach, Abraham, 1777-1854
Binding note:
  • Princeton copy 1 : Contemporary calf binding; all edges speckled.
Engraver:
  • Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
  • Gilbert, George, active 1818-1836
  • Gobrecht, Christian F., 1785-1844