Portions of the Holy Scripture, for the use of the Esquimaux on the northern and eastern shores of Hudson's Bay /
edited by Edmund Peck, C.M.S. missionary to the Esquimaux.

Description

Related Names

Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927, former owner.
Peck, E. J. (Edmund James), editor.
Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library)
Gilbert & Rivington
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Church Missionary Society.

Language(s)

Inuktitut

Published

[London] : Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 77, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1878

Subjects

Church Missionary Society > Church Missionary Society / Catechisms.
Church Missionary Society > Church Missionary Society / Missions > Church Missionary Society / Missions / Hudson Bay.
Catechisms, Inuit.
Inuktitut dialect > Inuktitut dialect / Hudson Bay > Inuktitut dialect / Hudson Bay / Texts.

Note

Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden Endowment.
Acquired through the Dorothy C. Armstrong Endowment Fund.
Newberry Library release stamp on front paste-down, dated "7-1-2016" ; Ayer Collection label (i.e., from the Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Linguistics Collection at the Newberry Library) on rear paste-down.
Bookplate on front paste-down: "To perpetuate the history and development of the people represented by the above chiefs and wise men this collection has been gathered by their friend Edward Everett Ayer and presented by him to the Newberry Library 1911".

Physical Description

93, [1], 8 pages ; 15 cm

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