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[BURMA]. The Gospels by Matthew and Mark, in Pwo Karen. Translated from the Sgau, by Karens: and Revised by Rev. F. Mason and D.L. Brayton. Tavoy, Karen Mission Press, Printed for the American and Foreign Bible Society, C. Bennett, 1852.
Pp. (ii), (122). With title page in English otherwise text in Karen throughout. Original green wrappers, spine chipped. Ex. library copy (New York Academy of Science). Faint stamp on title. First edition of the two Gospels in Pwo Karen. American missionaries first arrived among Karen tribes of Burma in 1828. Many years later they set up a printing press several hundred miles farther south, at Tavoy in the Tenasserim province. (However the most important printing place for the American Baprist Mission in Burma was placed in Maulmain). The first known publication at the Tavoy press is a dictionary by Jonathan Wade published in 1844. It is beleived that the Karen language had no written character before then. The Karen has no affinity with the Burmese and belongs to the Chinese family of languages. See Rhodes, The spread of printing, Eastern hemisphere, pp. 87-89. Darlow & Moule 5924.
Offered for EUR 860.00 = appr. US$ 1357.94 by: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books - Book number: 38003
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