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Zeisberger's Indian Dictionary English German Iroquois - The Onondaga; and Algonquin - The Delaware Printed from the Original Manuscript in Harvard College Library

1887013869Cambridge Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son University Press 1887. Large-Paper Copy. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Very Good condition overall. Fine condition internally. A square tight copy with perfectly sound inner hinges. The book is bound in the original pebble-grain reddish-brown cloth. Gilt stamping on the spine is still bright. The front cover has a shallow groove or indentation not too obtrusive -- 1/8th inch wide 4.5 inches long cloth is not punctured. There is some light scattered foxing on the endpapers and on the edges of the text block. However all text pages are clean crisp and unmarked with NO foxing. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. NO owner's name or bookplate. This is the first appearance in print of David Zeisberger's dictionary of the Onondaga Iroquois and Delaware Algonquin languages. Previously it existed only as a manuscript in the Harvard College Library. The editor discovered it there and arranged publication. This is one of the copies as described by James Constantine Pilling which is "printed on larger and better paper." Pilling notes that the title page of these Large Paper copies omits two lines beginning "This edition has been published." just before the imprint. Pilling BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ALGONQUIN LANGUAGES pp. 546-47. Hand Z5. Sabin 106301. For more on the life and works of David Zeisberger 1721-1808 see DAB Vol. 20 pp. 645-647; APPLETON'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY Vol. VI p. 658; and Earl Olmstead's DAVID ZEISBERGER A LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS. "The Rev. David Zeisberger was born at Zeuchtenthal in Moravia April 11 1721 and died in 1808 at Goshen in Ohio November 17 1808 aged 87 years. He first came to America about 1739; began the study of the Indian languages in 1745 He traversed Massachusetts and Connecticut New York Pennsylvania and Ohio entered Michigan and Canada preaching to many nations in many tongues Speaking the Delaware language fluently as well as the Mohawk and Onondaga dialects of the Iroquois; familiar with the Cayugas and other tongues; an adopted sachem of the Six Nations; naturalized among the Monseys by a formal act of the tribe; swaying for a number of years the Grand Council of the Delawares; at one time the keeper of the archives of the Iroquois Confederacy; versed in the customs of the aborigines; adapting himself to their mode of thought and by long habit a native in many of his own ways; no Protestant missionary and but few men of any other calling ever exercised more real influence and was more sincerely honored among the Indians." -- De Schweinitz's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID ZEISBERGER. First Edition Large-Paper Copy. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition. vi 236pp. John Wilson and Son, University Press Hardcover

UNITED STATES, General Land Office - C ROESER, Principal Draughtsman, GLO G L OBiblio.com

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187936095Washington D.C.: General Land Office printed in New York by Julius Bien lithographer 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of Wisconsin showing towns rivers roads railroads among other landmarks.<br/> <br/> The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War the Homestead Act the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876 the GLO surveyed over 200000000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico Idaho Dakota Nebraska Montana Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas and with access to military information the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers. In 1876 the GLO headed by S.S. Burdett published an atlas containing 18 maps on 19 sheets California being on two sheets showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868 the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas was the first atlas to be published by the department. The incredible growth of settlement in the west coupled with new exploration and surveying in the short time following the 1876 atlas engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 i.e. where the present example is from. Like the Centennial Atlas the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO Charles Roeser Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement the locations of the general land offices Indian territories county divisions towns rivers roads railroads etc. Furthermore like The Centennial Atlas the Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress government agencies each land office the post office the railroads and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The limited distribution of this atlas coupled with its large size accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey Streeter or Graff.<br/> <br/> Phillips Atlases 1405. General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer] unknown

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