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Gilbert Islands Spelling sheet broadside c.1858
Gilbert Islands Spelling sheet broadside c.1858
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Description
Heading: (Gilbert Islands)
Author:
Title: AA/BA BE BI BO BU/AM AH. . .
Place Published: Ponape
Publisher:
Date Published: 1858?
Description:


Broadside, 24x20 cm, uncut as issued.  



A spelling sheet, untitled. Apparently the first example of Gilbertese printing cited by Ballou as the first example from the press there, established under Hiram Bingham's Mission.  See Ballou:  "Preliminary Bibliography of Books in the Language of Micronesia," [Boston, 1900}.  E. F. Kunz:  "Annotated Bibliography of the Languages of the Gilbert Islands, Ellice Island and Nauru." [Sydney, 1959].  Kunz locates only one copy [at Harvard].



 

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Uneven edges, lower left corner creased; very good or better.
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Gilbert Islands Spelling sheet broadside c.1858

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