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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



of this copy. It is mentioned in Mr. T. W. 

 Field's Essay towards an Indian Bibliogra- 

 phy (Few York, 1873), p. 120; and in a letter 

 written by Dr. Trumbull in 1879. 



(36) Mr. E. P. Yining, St. Louis, Mo. In old 

 calf binding. With the diamond shaped figure 

 on the Indian new testament title. It lacks all 

 before signature C ((Jenesis xxi), 28 leaves in 

 the new testament (sig. F and Aa to Ff), and 

 all after signature E of the metrical psalms. 

 An interesting feature of this copy is the pres- 

 ence of the whole of the last sheet of the old 

 testament as originally printed, containing : 

 first, leaf Mmmmm ; second, the leaf of contents, 

 recto blank; third, the Indian general title, 

 verso blank ; fourth, the final leaf of the old 

 testament. As the binder had neglected to re- 

 move the inner half of the sheet, the title and 

 leaf of contents were therefore originally in 

 duplicate. On the verso of this leaf of con- 

 tents is written, "Henery ^STewman His Book, 

 Anno domny 1698. 1710." On the verso of the 

 Indian title is written, " Samuell Newman, and 

 David I. l^ewman their Book May: d : 9: 1717 ; " 

 and in another hand, "The property of Anna 

 Pecke presented to Mr by her grandfather." 

 On another leaf is written, "Angelina Peck — 

 Pawtucket, 1831." It also contains the memor- 

 andum: "Eebound by Joseph Peck Son of 

 CyrialPeck, Seekonk." The bible was after- 

 wards in the possession of Mr. Kider, the 

 bookseller of Providence, who took out 28 

 leaves of the new testament, and two other 

 leaves, to put into another copy (no. 29). It 

 was then sold by auction, in the library of 

 Gen. Horatio Rogers and the remaining portion 

 of the C. Fiske Harris collection, in Boston, 

 January 24 and 25, 1888 (no. 357), for $45, Mr. 

 Yining being the purchaser. Information fur- 

 nished by Mr. Yining. 



From a letter printed in the Documents relat- 

 ing to the Colonial History of . . . New York 

 (Albany, 1881), vol. 13, p. 520, it appears that a 

 copy of the bible was brought to Albany by a 

 Natick Indian in the time of Governor Nicolls, 

 1664-1668. According to Williamson's History 

 of the State of Maine, " a copy of Mr. Eliot's 

 Indian Bible, printed A. D. 1664, was obtained 

 by Eev. Daniel Little, missionary to the In- 

 dians of Penobscot and St. John, since the rev- 

 olution, which he carried with him; but he 

 said, 'not one word of their language could be 

 found in it.'" A copy of this edition, with the 

 Indian general title, was in the possession of 

 Dr. Johann SeverinYater, the eminent professor 

 of theology and librarian at Konigsberg (born 

 1771, died 1826), and is referred to by him in his 

 continuation of Adelung's Mithridates (Berlin, 

 1816), Th. 3, Abth. 3, S. 379. In Henry G. Bohn's 

 Catalogue of Books (London, 1841), no. 5696, a 

 copy is described under the heading Virginian, 

 as follows : " Biblia Indica. — The Old and New 

 Testaments, with a metrical version of the 

 Psalms, by J. Eliot, sm. 4to. very rare, injured 

 by damp, 12s. Cambridge, (New Eng.) 1663." 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



The copy formerly owned by Augustus Fred- 

 erick, duke of Sussex, the sixth son of king 

 George III. (born 1773, died 1843), and which is 

 described under the Indian title in Pettigrew's 

 Bibliotheca Sussexiana (London, 1839), vol. 2, p. 

 432, was sold by auction with the duke's library, 

 in London, in July, 1844 (no. 1158). A muti- 

 lated copy, lacking the titles and many leaves 

 at the beginning and end, was sold with the 

 third portion of the library of the late Joseph 

 J. Cooke, of Providence, in New York, Decem- 

 ber, 1883 (A.mericana, no. 790), for $5, Mr. D. G. 



• Francis, the bookseller, being the purchaser. 

 Copies of the old testartKent: Containing the 

 Indian general title, the leaf of contents. Gene- 

 sis to Malachi, and the metrical psalms with 

 the final leaf of rules. 467 printed leaves, and 

 1 blank leaf at the end. 



(37) Library of the late John Carter Brown, 

 Providence, R. I. The old testament and met- 

 rical psalms only, bound together in one vol- 

 ume, in brown calf. It is accompanied by a 

 copy of the new testament with the English 

 title and dedication in a separate volume, uni- 

 formly bound, for a description of which see 

 no. 6 of the list of testaments of 1661. The two 

 volumes were once owned by Edward King, 

 viscount Kingsborough (born 1795, died 1837), 

 and at the sale of his library in Dublin, an- 

 nounced for June, but postponed to November, 

 1842 (no. 56), brought '61. 3s. Not long after, 

 according to one account, Mr. E. B. Corwin, of 

 New York, purchased them in London for 4L 

 There is another statement, however, that they 

 were sold to Mr. Corwin by Bartlett and Wel- 

 ford, the New York booksellers, for $40. At 

 the sale of his library in New York, November, 

 1856 (no. 2552), the two volumes were purchased 

 for $200 by Mr. John R. Bartlett for Mr. Brown. 

 This copy is mentioned in Mr. Bartlett's list, 

 printed in the Historical Magazine (September, 

 1858) , vol. 2, p. 277. It is also described by Mr. 

 Bartlett, but not with suflBcient exactness, in 

 the catalogue of the Brown library printed in 

 1866 (part 2, no. 688), and again in the enlarged 

 edition of the same catalogue printed in 1882 

 (part 2, no. 920). Information furnished by Mr. 

 John Nicholas Brown, in letters of November 

 27th and December 2d, 1889. 



(38) Mr. C. F. Gunther, Chicago, III. The old 

 testament and metrical psalms only, bound 

 together in one volume, in crushed levant mo- 

 rocco, gilt top and back, by R. W. Smith (aboat 

 1885). The old testament is complete, with the 

 Indian general title and leaf of contents, but 

 four leaves (signature E) are lacking in the 

 metrical psalms, from the middle of Psalm LI 

 to the first part of Psalm LXYI, and many of 

 the leaves have been repaired. On the back of 

 the title is the stamp of the library of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, as a "duplicate sold." The 

 history of this copy, gathered from scattered 

 notices and memoranda, appears to be as fol- 

 lows. In March and April, 1870 (259 Catalogue, 

 no. 277), and in July, 1870 (260 Catalogue, no. 



