Summary: | "An abridgment of the Gregorian chant": pages [7]-20. Dedication to "The Great Patriarch, Pius the Ninth" in English (recto) and Abenaki (verso) inserted at page [v], preceding preface. Last page blank. Treatise in English; musical texts in Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot), Latin, and Micmac. Frontispiece "N'dàkkabin skudewhambù. Rum, fire-water" signed: Lith. by T.W. Strong, 98 Nassau St. N.Y. Pilling, J.C. Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, Mode of access: Internet. Non-contemporary binding of red goatskin; tooled border lines in gold; spine gilt; board edges and turn-ins tooled in gold; evidence text pages trimmed, edges gilt; pale yellow surface coated endpapers. Author's autograph presentation copy to Dr. McRuer. Dated: Bangor, Aug. 13, 1858. With: Adlachemudiguichkek meiaulakwey . New York, 1858. Bound together subsequent to publication. ACQ: Original W.L. Clements. With his leather bookplate.
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