Three separately issued portions of the Bible in Cherokee

Lot 320

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Nov 25, 2025

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[CHEROKEE PRINTING] Three separately issued portions of the Bible in Cherokee. Comprises [The Epistles of John]. [attrib: Park Hill: Mission Press but likely printed New York, 1860]. Self wrappers, two unsewn signatures, 16 pp.; together with The Epistles of Paul to Timothy [caption title]. [Park Hill: Mission Press, likely 1853]. Self wrappers, single unsewn signature, 24 pp.; and Isaiah [caption title]. Park Hill: Mission Press, likely 1849. Self wrappers, two unsewn signatures, 32 pp. printed notation "5000 copies" at rear. All uncut. The first a little browned, the protruding blank margin of the terminal leaves with a small hole; the second with chewing or similar damage in the upper margins; the third with minor toning, fraying but generally very clean. Three rare separate printings of portions of the Bible in the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah, which was rapidly accepted throughout the Cherokee culture, to the point where the majority of Cherokees could read by the mid-1820s, an extraordinary accomplishment in an era in which America as a whole was far from universally literate. Samuel Worcester, Elias Boudingot and later Stephen Foreman published sections of the Bible from 1829 on. The first work here is Hargrett Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1890 Appendix p. 229; the second Hargrett 158, and the third Hargrett 136.

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