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18765677Bangkok: Royal Publishing House 1876. Together good plus. Two volumes. 448; 442pp. Large quarto. First volume in contemporary quarter sheep and pebbled boards; second volume in later library buckram. Even tanning heavier to second volume. Scattered chipping small closed tears worming and moisture damage to second volume. A substantial and complete two-year run of the Royal Gazette a rare landmark Thai newspaper. "The Royal Gazette was first published in 1858 during the reign of King Rama IV. It was launched because ‘the traditional practice of manually copying various announcements was slow’. The content included government announcements legal regulations and statements that countered misinformation in relation to government news as well as notifications of births and deaths. It was distributed to various ministries and provinces coming to be regarded as the first newspaper published by the Thai people" -- Suveeranont.<br /> <br /> The first version of the gazette lasted for about a year before it was discontinued but the paper was revived in 1874 by King Rama V also known as King Chulalongkorn. The present volumes represent the first two years of this second incarnation of the Royal Gazette complete with forty-eight issues each. Royal Publishing House unknown
1878027250Breslau: S. Schottlaender 1878. First Edition 1st Printing. 1/4 Leather. Very Good. 88 Pp; 170 Pp. Watered Endpapers. Very Scarce Early Book By German Science Fiction/Utopian Literature Pioneer Kurd Lasswitz 1848-1910. "As The First Major Sf Writer In German He Holds The Same Place In Germany As Do H. G. Wells In England And Jules Verne In France. He Taught Philosophy For Many Years At The Gymnasium Ernestinium In Gotha And It Is Symptomatic Of 19Th-Century Gerrman Intellectual Culture That He Irradiated His Fiction With Theoretical Speculation; There Is Not Kl Fiction Without A Lesson. William N. Fischer Claims On Kl's Behalf That Many Of His Ideas Directly Prefigure Later Critics' Use Of Terms Like 'Extrrapolation' And 'Analogue'.The Seriousness Of His Didactic Impulse Can Be Seen In The Strong Emphasis He Places In His Fiction On Establishing A Plausible Imaginary World Whose Hypothetical Nature Will Be Governed And Given Verisimilitude By Resemblance To Scientific Method Evident In Its Realization. Unsurprisingly The Stories That Embody These Overriding Concerns Tend To Be More Effective As Broad Technological And Scientific Canvases Than As Studies In Character; The Tales Collected In Bilder Aus Der Zukunft Read Consequently Almost Like Illustrated Tours Of Various 'Superior Terrestrial Cultures Located In The Future." John Clute In The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. "Many Inferences About The Future Can Be Drawn From The Historical Course Of Civilization And The Present State Of Science; And Analogy Offers Itself To Fantasy As An Ally". William B. Fischer In Science Fiction Studies 1978. A Well-Worn Copy Spine Leather Entirely Perished Recently Re-Backed To Style Preserving Original Marbled Endpapers Publisher's Internal Cloth Hinges Still Holding. Very Scarce With Only A Few Examples Shown In Institutional Holdings Indexed In Worldcat. From The Collection Of Sf Collector/Dealer/Publisher Forrest Ackerman. <br/> <br/> S. Schottlaender hardcover
184333039Paris: Victor Masson; Matthieu Bonafous; Felix-Edouard Gurrin-Menevill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Plates; Natural History; Nature; Science; Maritime; Voyages; Color lithos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 134 107 pages; SOUVENIRS D'UN VOYAGE DANS L'INDE EXECUTE DE 1834 A 1839 COLOR PLATES OUVRAGE ENRICHI DE TRENTE-CINQ PLANCHES. Delessert's voyage to India. 8 uncolored lithographed plates of Indian landscapes and cities; 27 engraved zoological plates all but 4 hand-colored; folding engraved map is present in back. Half title. 2 parts in one volume. Large 8vo later 19th-century 1/2 morocco gilt spine ends and raised bands rubbed cover corners worn; occasional marginal fingersoiling half-title and title chipped along fore edge plate 5 in part 1 badly foxed stain in blank lower outer corner of plate 10 in part 2. Paris 1843 . Contents generally VG with plate colors bright. First edition. Nissen ZBI 1067; Vicaire III 119. French Language text. . Victor Masson; Matthieu Bonafous; Felix-Edouard Gurrin-Menevill hardcover
1872036246Munich / Berlin: Friedrich Bruckmann 1872. 1st Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good . 97 Pp With Mounted Plates. Red Cloth Heavily Embossed In Gilt Beveled Edges With Double Borders Embossed In Blind All Edges Gilt Cloth Endpapers. Bookplate Of Leopold Duke Of Albany. Inscription On Second Free Endpaper From Queen Victoria Of England To Her Son Leopold "For Dear Leopold From Illegible Two Words Dea---- ---A---A Shortened Name Used By Queen Victoria Osborne January 1 1873." Leopold Was Then A Student At Oxford. A Fine New Year's Gift With What May Be Viewed As Exceptionally Romantically Maternal Germanic-Victorian Plates. <br/> <br/> Friedrich Bruckmann hardcover
18800267-05[ca. 1880]. [Album of views in Egypt]. 40 lose Orig.-Albumen-Photographien auf Kartons kasch. 21,5 x 27,5 cm. (Plattengr.). Ln.-Flügelmappe d. Zt. m. Deckelgoldprägung.
1871025478Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1871. First Edition . Original Blue Printed Wrappers. Very Good . 8 7/8" Tall. 40 Pp. Original Blue Printed Wrappers. Preserved Nicely In A Well Made Maroon Chemise And Slipcase With Morocco Spine Label Gilt. Inscribed And Signed By Pasteur " Hommage De L'autour / L. Pasteur" In Small Handwriting At Upper Right Of Front Cover. A Scarce Book In The Trade Particularly Scarce When Inscribed And Otherwise Unmarked As Here And A Very Early Inscription From Pasteur In Any Case. <br/> <br/> Gauthier-Villars unknown
1892006542London: T. Fisher Unwin 1892. The First Trade Edition there was also a limited edition of 100 copies. Very Good in the original salmon cloth with black decorations to boards; title in red on front and spine Unwin monogram likewise on rear. Color frontispiece. Spine darkened and red title dulled 3" tear top edge half-title page light foxing to end pages period interesting bookplate front pastedown. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University the only library indicators being its stamp verso of frontispiece and blindstamp to title page. With RARE and important three page ALS tipped to front end page sent from Leland at the Hotel Victoria Florence Italy to Mr Sampson noted linguist John Sampson possiby dated 1899 with "99" after heading. "Dear Mr Sampson I have written and sent you separately by this mail that which I contribute to our book." He then discusses his wishes for the Preface and Introduction before adding "The Tinkers. This is quite unfinished. It needs a great deal from you. Please note that I have got some queer items as to the Tinkers of old times." In the next paragraph he mentions Shelta Shelta Thari being an esoteric language spoken by the tinkers which Leland had discovered in 1876. He goes on to ask "Can you send me an Old Irish alphabet' and later "I hope it will not take you long to put together what you and Professor Meyer will give" referring to Professor Kuno Meyer a German scholar distinguished in the field of Celtic philology and literature. Then an address in Hamburg Germany where he can be reached after June and "Sincerely Charle G. Leland". While I can find no book that these three men published together Sampson and Meyer did much work later to carry forward research and knowledge of the Shelta language and customs. A quite fascinating correspondence and ASSOCIATION COPY. . HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. First Trade Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. T. Fisher Unwin Hardcover books
1857CHINESEL007987London Mission Press Shanghai. 1857. First edition. Octavo. pp viii 264 2 errata. Recently rebound in blue cloth gilt.Very good indeed. Rare - even the second edition of 1864 is scarce. London Mission Press, Shanghai. hardcover
18972092902144200899Not Available 1897. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1880027837Paris: Derveaux 1880. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Xvi 89 Pp 1 Pp Catalog At End. Simply Bound With Brown Binder's Tape Spine And Brown Card Wrappers Two Preliminary Blanks Two Final Blanks. Pages Square And Unworn No Marks. Small Area Of Light Damp-Spotting At Part Of Top And Bottom Of Most Pages No Waviness To Pages. Émile Jean-Marie Gautier 1853 - 1937 Was An Anarchist And Later A Journalist. He Coined The Term "Social Darwinism". He Obtained A Doctorate In Law. He Became A Disciple Of Jules Vallès. Gautier Attended The Anarchist Congress That Met In London From 14 July 1881. Other Delegates Included Peter Kropotkin Errico Malatesta Saverio Merlino Louise Michel And Marie Le Compte. While Respecting "Complete Autonomy Of Local Groups" The Congress Defined Propaganda Actions That All Could Follow And Agreed That "Propaganda By The Deed" Was The Path To Social Revolution. He Was Implicated During The Trial Of Peter Kropotkin And On 19 January 1883 Was Sentenced By The Criminal Court Of Lyon To Five Years In Prison. On 15 August 1885 He Was Pardoned. Renouncing Political Activism Gautier Worked At Various Newspapers Including L'écho De Paris Where He Met Octave Mirbeau And Le Figaro Where He Published "Documentary Chronicles". These Were Published As A Collection In 1992 Under The Title Les Étapes De La Science Steps Of Science. According To The Historian Of Social Thought Mike Hawkins Emile Gautier Was The First To Use The Term "Social Darwinism" In His Pamphlet Of The Same Name Published In 1880 In Paris. He Became A Well-Known Popular Science Writer. His 1902 Fleur De Bagne Prison Flowers Written With His Childhood Friend Marie-François Goron Was An Ancestor Of Techno-Thrillers And Crime Dramas With Science Themes. <br/> <br/> Derveaux paperback
181346988London, Robert Baldwin, 1813 a. 1814. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf. Marbled boards. Spines lacks and boards detached. In: ""Annals of Philosophy"" or Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics... By Thomas Thomson"". Vol. II and Vol. III. Entire volumes offered. Berzelius' papers: pp. 276-284, 357-368 (the first paper in vol. II), pp. 443-454 (vol. II) a. pp. 51-62, 93-106, 244-257 a. 353-364. (vol. III). Internally fine and clean.
181346988London Robert Baldwin 1813 a. 1814. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf. Marbled boards. Spines lacks and boards detached. In: "Annals of Philosophy; or Magazine of Chemistry Mineralogy Mechanics. By Thomas Thomson". Vol. II and Vol. III. Entire volumes offered. Berzelius' papers: pp. 276-284 357-368 the first paper in vol. II pp. 443-454 vol. II a. pp. 51-62 93-106 244-257 a. 353-364. vol. III. Internally fine and clean. <br/><br/><em> First printing of these milestone papers in the history of chemistry where Berzelius introduced his famous chemical symbolism whereby an element is generally represented by the first letter of its Latin name or in the event of elements having the same first letter by the first two letters. Even though his atomic symbols were introduced in 1813 see the note on p. 359 in the first paper it was quite a few years before Berzelius's symbols were adopted by the chemistry community. But once accepted they became the new international language of chemistry.Berzelius "contributed more to the development of the atomic theory and to the setting up of accurate values of the atomic weights than did any other worker of the time. Of his contributions moreover to the development of the atomic theory and the advancement of chemical science not the least valuable was the introduction of a chemical symbolism which with slight modification is in use at the present day. By giving his symbols a quantitative meaning - the symbol of an element representing one atomic proportion by weight - it was possible "to show briefly and clearly the number of elementary atoms in each compound and after the determination of their relative weights present the results of each analysis in a simple and easely retained manner". This symbolism was speedily adopted on the Continent but in England only after some considerable time."Findlay "A Hundred Years of Chemistry" p. 14.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1813 C. - Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry" p. 258 ff. - Holmberg 1813:28 a. The volume contains other notable papers THOMAS THOMSON "On the Discovery of the Atomic Theory" pp. 329-338. and JOHN DALTON "Remarks on the Essay of Dr. Berzelius on the Cause of Chemical Proportions" pp. 174-180 Vol. III. </em> hardcover
1892006542London: T. Fisher Unwin 1892. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. First Trade Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The First Trade Edition there was also a limited edition of 100 copies. Very Good in the original salmon cloth with black decorations to boards; title in red on front and spine Unwin monogram likewise on rear. Color frontispiece. Spine darkened and red title dulled 3" tear top edge half-title page light foxing to end pages period interesting bookplate front pastedown. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University the only library indicators being its stamp verso of frontispiece and blindstamp to title page. With RARE and important three page ALS tipped to front end page sent from Leland at the Hotel Victoria Florence Italy to Mr Sampson noted linguist John Sampson possiby dated 1899 with "99" after heading. "Dear Mr Sampson I have written and sent you separately by this mail that which I contribute to our book." He then discusses his wishes for the Preface and Introduction before adding "The Tinkers. This is quite unfinished. It needs a great deal from you. Please note that I have got some queer items as to the Tinkers of old times." In the next paragraph he mentions Shelta Shelta Thari being an esoteric language spoken by the tinkers which Leland had discovered in 1876. He goes on to ask "Can you send me an Old Irish alphabet' and later "I hope it will not take you long to put together what you and Professor Meyer will give" referring to Professor Kuno Meyer a German scholar distinguished in the field of Celtic philology and literature. Then an address in Hamburg Germany where he can be reached after June and "Sincerely Charle G. Leland". While I can find no book that these three men published together Sampson and Meyer did much work later to carry forward research and knowledge of the Shelta language and customs. A quite fascinating correspondence and ASSOCIATION COPY. T. Fisher Unwin Hardcover
18756269Oxford Clarendon Press. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Bookplates of scholar Gilbert Bagnani on inner covers of volumes. Books have rubbing to boards. Light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear. Very light foxing. Bound in attractive dark red boards with gilt lettering.; Published from 1875-88.; 6 Volume Set COMPLETE. Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
18356232Puebla: Imprenta del Hospital de S. Pedro 1835. Good plus. 2653pp. plus engraved frontispiece. Contemporary limp vellum edges sprinkled blue with one fore-edge loop closure intact. Some biopredation to vellum heavier to rear wrapper. Light tanning and scattered foxing internally with some minor worming in lower gutter margins not affecting text. An extensive bilingual catechism on the "principal mysteries of our holy faith" one of two editions printed in Puebla in 1835. The question-and-answer text printed in Spanish and Nahuatl on facing pages provides basic explanations of the central tenets and practices of Catholicism. An engraved frontispiece depicts "La Madre Santissima del Lumen" the Holiest Mother Mary of the Light in her usual appearance holding the baby Jesus and surrounded by Angels.<br /> Palau 85329. Pilling 1251. Sabin 23424. Imprenta del Hospital de S. Pedro unknown
1885023087New York: D. Appleton and Company 1885. SEE PHOTOS. From the library of Thomas Alva Edison genius of technology who held over 1000 patents including the electric light phonograph and motion picture projector. This book bears his "Library of Thomas A. Edison" engraved bookplate believed to be the earliest of several Edison bookplates and found only in volumes he acquired in the 19th century for personal use. SEE PHOTOS. Because so many important scientific journals were published in German in those days a German language dictionary was an essential reference tool in the laboratory. Laid in loose is a printed authentication slip from Edison's youngest son Theodore M. Edison. Bound in contemporary brown cloth with a dark brown leather spine stamped in shiny gold. SEE PHOTOS. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition. xvi 852pp. ii 522pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. D. Appleton and Company Hardcover
18691785New York: American Bible Society 1869. Very good plus. 65; 47pp. 12mo. Contemporary black morocco stamped in gilt and blind. Corners and spine ends rubbed. Light toning to text. A handsomely bound copy of two books of the Pentateuch printed in Dakota by the American Bible Society. The translator Thomas Williamson 1800-1879 was a doctor and missionary who worked with the Dakota Indians in Minnesota and helped develop the first written alphabet and grammar of the Dakota language. During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 he and his family were protected by Christianized members of the tribe who subsequently helped them escape to safety. He was instrumental in convincing President Lincoln to pardon twenty-five of the men who had been taken prisoner following the revolt and after Lincoln's death he advocating with Andrew Johnson for the pardon and release of the remaining men. The present two works are the first and only stand-alone editions of Exodus and Leviticus in Dakota published by the Bible Society thought they often are bound together as here. The translations appeared again in 1872 in an edition that also included Genesis and Deuteronomy; the entire Bible in Dakota was completed and published in 1879. Scarce. Ayer Dakota 28 Exodus. Pilling Proof Sheets 4160. Pilling Siouan p.78. American Bible Society unknown books
1831218021Leipzig, Teubner, 1831-98. M. einigen Taf. u. Abb. Hldr. d. Zt., Pp. u. OBr. Bd. 25-27 in 1 Bd. Meist St. a. Tit. Einige wenige Bde. bzw. Rücken beschäd. bzw. fleckig. 1 Bd. ohne Einbd.
181014534Paris, Chaumenot, 1810 ; in-8 ; demi-veau gris-perle (reliure moderne) ; (4), 354 pp.
1868000431Boston: Fields & Osgood 1868. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Boston: Fields & Osgood 1868 hardbound Volume 6 July to December 1868 of the magazine. Taves & Michaluk V001. 10.25" x 6.75" 828 pp. Ex-Tacoma Public Library; half black calf with marbled paper boards. Quite scuffed particularly at the corners and hinges. Pages are age toned some are wrinkled one page is torn but complete not a page within the Verne issue. Strongly bound. Somewhat worn see scans but still quite strong better than Good just short of very good by reason of one or two too many scuffs. Fascinating and quite rare Jules Verne English-language first/first. Just a few pages buried within this hefty collection of six months of Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading - a Fields & Osgood double-column weekly issue - treat Verne's first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. At the time the magazine editors were apparently of the opinion that Verne who was then largely unknown to the American public was describing actual events rather than fictitious ones in his tale of African adventures undertaken via the vehicle of a hot-air balloon. Here in the five pages of this first appearance see scan of the first one only certain passages of the novel occur along with a synopsis by the apparently intrigued editor who concludes with the line: "All I can say is that it was shameful of our newspapers which profess to record everything that passes to treat this important event with such utter silence." Verne is even mis-identified by the flummoxed staff who refer to him as "M. Jules Berne." For this title this piece is exceeded in English-language rarity only by its own softbound variant - i.e. the same piece not bound together in six-monthly tomes such as this which was the habit of the era which few have presumably largely perished. Taves & Michaluk at V001 note that "The London" sourcing reference for the Verne article remains unknown. See all scans. L53n <br/> <br/> Fields & Osgood hardcover
182643113(London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 250-265 and 4 engraved plates. Some faint dampstains to plates. One plate with a small tear, no loss. the same plate some creasing at upper part, verso of plate somewhat soiled. Page 261 with some marginal brownspots and some soiling. The other leaves clean and fine.
182643113London W.Nicol 1826. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 250-265 and 4 engraved plates. Some faint dampstains to plates. One plate with a small tear no loss. the same plate some creasing at upper part verso of plate somewhat soiled. Page 261 with some marginal brownspots and some soiling. The other leaves clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a main paper in the history of Computing Science in which Babbage set forth some of the basic principles that guide modern computers."Babbage's first publication of his system of mechanical notation that enabled him to describe the logic and operation of his machiness on paper as they would be fabricated in metal. Babbage later stated that: "Without the aid of this language I could not have invented the Analytical Engine; nor do I belive that any machinery of equal complexity can ever be contrived without the assistance of that or of some other equivalent language. The Difference Engine No.2.is entirely described by its aid." .Babbage considered his mechanical notation system to be one of his finest inventions and thought it should be widely implemented. It was a source of frustartion to him that no other machine designerr adopted it probably because no ther engineer during Babbage's time attermpted to build machines as logically and mechanically complex as Babbage's. More than one hundred years later in the 1930s when development in logic were applied to switching systems in the earliest efforts to devwelop electromechanical calculators. Ckaude Shannon demonstrated that Boolean algebra could be applied to the same types of problems for which Babbage had designed his mechanical notation system."Hook & Norman No. 37.Together with Babbage's paper comes a paper by J.F.W. Herschel "On the parallax of the fixed stars" pp. 266-280. </em> unknown
186047825New York: American Bible Society 1860. Very Good. New York: American Bible Society 1860 but ca. 1861-62. First Edition. Octavo; bound in black cloth with spine stamped in gilt; edges sprayed red; new endpapers; 408pp. collated and complete. Corners bumped; minor shelfwear and rubbing; binding sound; tape remnants to front endpapers; minor creasing; a Very Good or better copy. <br /> <br /> First Edition of the first complete New Testament published in the Cherokee language. Individual books and portions had been printed from the 1820s onward primarily by Cherokee printer and journalist Elias Boudinot and missionary Samuel Worcester. This edition nearly entirely in the Cherokee alphabet with English titles at the foot of the first page of each book. Uncommon in retail. <br /> <br /> Pilling pp. 40 - 41; Darlow & Moule 2448. American Bible Society unknown
1870530Montreal 1870. About very good. 17pp. Quarto. Original plain wrappers bound into contemporary buckram gilt spine label. Light foxing and wear to buckram. Front hinge cracking front endpaper detaching. Two chips at fore-edges of final two leaves not affecting text otherwise internally clean. Accomplished in a neat legible hand. A fascinating if somewhat eccentric manuscript essay on South American linguistic history and its supposed connections to Gaelic languages by a Scottish-Canadian professor at the Presbyterian College of Montreal. John Campbell was principally a professor of church history but was also a serious student of anthropology philology and linguistics and published numerous articles and monographs on a wide variety of subjects. Campbell was born in Edinburgh and immigrated to Montreal via London and Toronto in the 1870s where he was appointed to a professorship in 1873. His wide-ranging publications include scholarly and polemical essays in various academic journals a volume of children's story sermons and a novel set in the Muskoka region of Ontario. His most well-known work was a two volume ethnographic study entitled "The Hittites" in which he claimed that the people were descendants of the Japanese Basques and Peruvians among others. "Later critics with reason considered him an academic dilettante" - Canadian Dictionary of Biography. The present work continues such grandiose thinking and claims a linguistic and genealogical link between the Aymara peoples of Peru and Bolivia and the Celts. Through the comparison of selected words in Aymara Quechua Gaelic and Welsh complete with several tables and appendices Campbell argues that "The large number of words identical in form and meaning in the two languages suffice to establish the common origin of Celts and Aymaras." The essay continues to make additional comparisons with Quechua and cites the research of Hyde Clark as the inspiration for its line of inquiry. Campbell likely prepared this essay as one of his many contributions to Canadian academic journals. In an article he published in the journal of the Royal Society of Canada at the turn of the 20th century he states that 'Some years previous I pointed out a large Celtic element in the dialects of Peru and notably in that of the Aymaras." Hyde Clark references Campbell's theories in this area in his own book "The Khita and Khita-Peruvian Epoch" published in 1877. Nevertheless we are unable to locate a published version of this essay. A strange yet enthusiastic work asserting a tenuous theory of native Peruvian language. unknown books
1871WRCAM27691Victoria: T.N. Hibben & Company 1871. 26pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling to covers else very good or better. The earliest citation for the Chinook Jargon is George Gibbs' 1863 edition for the Smithsonian Institution but even there the preface cites an earlier version furnished by a B.R. Mitchell of the U.S. Navy also for the Smithsonian. The present edition is most likely a reprint of the first Hibben edition around 1871. As trading developed throughout the Pacific Northwest this little volume was in high demand. It was reprinted over fifty times this being one of the earlier editions. PILLING CHINOOKAN pp.21-23 32-33. T.N. Hibben & Company unknown books