Agantieoimgeoel. Offices du dimanche. Etrait du Paroissien Micmac

by Henri-Joseph-Louis Buisson

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Ste Anne de Restigouche: publisher not identified , 1917. 32mo, pp. 2 348; text in Micmac; black buckram with red stained edges, near fine. Mi'kmaq ideograms are the oldest known native writing north of Mexico, and were adapted for the use of Catholic missionary work in the 17th century. The first attempt at printing a book of religious instruction in Micmac hieroglyphs was fraught with difficulty, took almost ten years to produce, and a large number of the

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