Author: Brinton, Daniel G. & Anthony, Albert Seqaqkind - Editors. [Zeisberger, David]
Title: A LENAPE - ENGLISH DICTIONARY. From an Anonymous MS. in the Archives of the Moravian Church at Bethlehemk PA. [in] The PENNSYLVANIA STUDENT SERIES. Vol. 1, 1889
Description: Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1888. 1st edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Bevelled boards. TEG. vii, 236 pp (including Index). Frontis portrait of D. Zeisberger. 8vo. Spine sunned. Small discrete po name stamp to ffep. A Nr Fine copy. Zeisberger's previous works "A Grammar of the Language of the Lenni Lenape" (PhilTrans, 1827), and "Zeisberger's Indian Dictionary" (Cambridge, 1887) and the "Delaware Spelling Book" were the chief resources to the missionaries and "unquestionably the present Lenape-English Dictionary was founded mainly upon the linguistic work of this proto-Lenapist." (Preface).

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