A Dictionary Of The Otchipwe Language, Explained In English. Part I. English-Otchipwe.A New Edition.

8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 301. text in double columns. original printed wrs. from A Grammar And Dictionary Of the Otchipwe Language, 1879 & prelims from the Grammar. later full turquoise morocco (rubbed). complimentary slip from the editor, Father Albert Lacombe. bookplate & ownership entry of Quebec lawyer, politician and author, Pierre Boucher de La Bruère [1837-1917]`. Second Edition (first: Cincinnati: 1853). The compiler of the dictionary was for many years a missionary among the Ottawa and Chippeway tribes of the American middle west. This edition, prepared by Oblate missionary, Albert Lacombe, with the financial assistance of the Canadian government, was intended to be of use to Canadian missionaries in Manitoba and Keewatin. The dictionary was usually issued with Baraga’s A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language, not present here, but it appears to also have been available on its own. An Otchipwe-English dictionary was published the following year. TPL 3326-27. Lande S143. Gagnon I 205. Pilling, Algonquian, pp. 27-28. cfSabin 3247. cfField 75.…