1865, 2nd edition. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. xix, errata, 324pp. Stamped cloth boards, very sun-faded especially at spine. Lettering to spine barely discernible. Internally fine. Contemporary repair includes new endpapers making this copy more solid than ever. From PEEL 216 "A link between Howse's grammar and the missionary translators at Rossville is a letter by Rev. James Evans, quoted in the preface, commending the grammar. Howse considered Cree the oldest and purest of the Algonquian languages. Royal Geographical Society is said to have contributed �50 towards publication of the 1st edition (1844)".

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A Grammar of the Cree Language; With Which Is Combined an Analysis of the Chippeway Dialect

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Trubner & Co., London

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Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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