[Americana]. [FARAUD (Henri)]. Nioltsi be diklisse [= Holy h - Lot 236

[Americana]. [FARAUD (Henri)]. Nioltsi be diklisse [= Holy history in Montagnais language and syllabic characters]. Paris, Typogr. A. Hennuyer, 1876. In-12, 320 p., publisher's black percaline with gilt title on upper cover (traces of stretching on spine, endpapers torn off, title yellowed with modern penciled mark). Extremely rare single edition of this work by Mgr. Henri Joseph Faraud (1823-1890), written in what was then known as the "Montagnais" language, that of the natives of eastern Canada. "Assigned to the Canadian missions [...], he worked successively at Wabassimong (White Dog, Ontario) and Prairie-du-Cheval-Blanc (1847) with the Saulteux, at Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, where he learned Montagnais (1848), and at the La Nativité mission at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, on Lake Athabaska (1849-1861), serving the missions of Fort Résolution (1852) on Great Slave Lake, and Fort Vermillion on Rivière-de-la-Paix (1858). He returned to Île-à-la-Crosse in 1861. [After a stay in France], returning to Canada, he stopped in Montreal to supervise the printing of works in Indian languages, arriving in St. Boniface on May 24, 1865 and, on August 23, in Fort Providence on the Mackenzie River, where he first settled, before moving in 1869 to Lac La Biche, Alberta" (according to OMIWorld. org).Provenance: Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Province of France (stamp on preface f.) (M. Bernad, Bibliographie des missionnaires oblats de Marie-Immaculée, Liège, 1922, t.1, p. 42).