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Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, 1820. First edition. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Rebacked in half buckram with original boards. Front end papers missing. Front vinette pated down. From the collection and signed by Paul A. W. Wallace. An important association copy. 429 p. First American Frontier. Audience: General/trade. First edition. Sabin 31205; Streeter 1331; Howes H392; American Imprints 1556; Field 678. A good copy with wide margins. According to Field, "The narrative of this mission is a history of the noblest labors of the human race, for the civilization of a savage people. There could be no better guarantee of the value of a treatise on the American Indians, than the names of Rev. John Heckewelder and Peter S. Duponceau. " "Standard authority on the Moravian missions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc. " [Howes]. In 1999, Anthony F. C. Wallace completed transfer of his professional and personal papers to the Library of the American Philosophical Society, where they join a…
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Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians (The First American Frontier) Unknown - 1820
by Heckewelder, John
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- Title Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians (The First American Frontier)
- Author Heckewelder, John
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- Publisher Ayer Co Pub, New York
- Date 1820
- ISBN 9780405028526
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