1902 POHNPEIAN Holy Bible MISSIONARY Leather ANTIQUE Native MICRONESIAN Islands

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1902 POHNPEIAN Holy Bible MISSIONARY Leather ANTIQUE Native MICRONESIAN Islands:
$599.99

EXTREMELY RARE POHNPEIAN LANGUAGE NEW TESTAMENT!
Katete Kap pan atail jioua kamaur Jijoj Kraij : me kajirauik joṅ ni lokaia uta krik ; ap kapara ki toṅ Ponape. [Translated by A.A. Sturges and E.T. Doane].Me Ren : En Amerika joupenepan Paipel, 1902. 2nd Ed The second edition of the Pohnpeian New Testament, a rare unrecorded version with records only showing the first edition of 1887 and the third of 1905 (this is dated 1902). Pohnpeian or Ponapean is a Micronesian language spoken as the indigenous language of the island of Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands, located in the Western Pacific Ocean just north of New Guinea. Pohnpeian has about 29,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom live in Pohnpei and its outlying atolls and islands. It is a major language of the Federated States of Micronesia. Bound in original pebbled leather, leather rounded, with both boards detached , the spine with raised bands and gilt title. Some light foxing and staining to text, with a few edge chips, as shown. Unmarked lest for signature to front EP of a Thomas Gray, as shown. Measures 8.25\" x 5.5\". 388pp; complete.