Rev Giorda (5 results)

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo; unbound booklet; 17 pp.; text pages uncut; Near Fine. Part I only. "Put in type and printed by the Indian school boys at St. Ignatius. Father Giorda may very properly be considered the author of all the works which we have printed in the Kalispelor Flathead language. About 225 copies of each were printed." Cf. Pilling, Bibliography of the Salishan languages. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION, 12mo, 456pgs. Original green cloth with inked titled on cover. First Edition of Part 2 only; English-Kalispel. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Original mission binding, light rubbing and wear to edges; light soiling. Interior pages are complete and clean. Front hinge cracked but solid. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Part 2 only of a scarce Indian language dictionary of the Kalispel language. Produced and bound by the Mission Press at St. Ignatius Mission in St. Ignatius, Montana. REFERENCES: PILLING, Salishan, p. 28; SCHOENBERG, Jesuit Mission Presses, No. 5: "Considered one of the greatest mission press publications in American history. It represents years of labor by three of the best scholars of Indian language . There has been some speculation about the number of Kalispel dictionaries printed. The exact number is not known. Palladino reports that fifty copies were printed especially for libraries in America and Europe . Other copies, for missionary use, probably amounted to [another] fifty.".…

Wraps. Condition: Good. Front wrapper is missing, Back gray wrapper is present and show some edge wear. The spine is still present and mostly tight. Many uncut pages. The pages look to be unmarked.

8vo, pp. [4], 45, [1]; original paper wrapper perished, reinforced in stiff brown library card; pages toned and worn at edges, good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with release stamp on title page. "These works were put in type and printed by the Indian school boys at St. Ignatius. About 225 copies of each were printed." Pilling identifies the author as Giorda per his correspondence with a superintendent of the school, Father Leopold Van Gorp. Pilling, Salishan, p. 28; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 1558; Schoenberg, 7.…

First Edition. First edition, 3 vols. in 1; 8vo, pp. [4], 644; [8], 456; [4], 36; appendix to the first volume with separate title page at the back; later three-quarter green morocco over green cloth sides, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1, t.e.g., others uncut; near fine throughout. Engraved bookplate of Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas (1867-1937), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming, serving from 1909 to 1927. "The author owes much to the manuscript dictionary of Rev. G. Mengarini, who, first of all the Jesuit missionaries, possessed himself of the genius of this language, and, besides speaking it with the perfection of a native Indian, reduced it also to the rules of grammar" (Preface). Pilling, Salishan, p. 28; Schoenberg, Jesuit Mission Presses, nos. 3, 4, and 5: "Considered one of the greatest mission press publications in American history. It represents years of labor by three of the best scholars of Indian language . There has been some speculation about the number of Kalispel dictionaries printed. The exact number is not known. Palladino reports that fifty copies were printed especially for libraries in America and Europe . Other copies, for missionary use, probably amounted to [another] fifty.".…