Binney, George [W.W. Perrett; Dr. S.K. Hutton, trans.] - The Eskimo Book of Knowledge / Aglait Ilisimatiksat Inungnut Ilingnajut

London, Hudson's Bay Company, 1931. Hardcover. pp. 237. 8vo in original paper-covered boards with illustrated pastedown to front board, blue lettering to front board and spine, and Hudson's Bay Company flag to rear board. Map endpapers. Photographic frontispiece, 8 black and white photographic plates. Ex-Hudson's Bay Company Library: Sticker and glue to spine, HBC bookplate. Front pastedown chipped at corner, edgewear, frontispiece pulling away from binding, internally clean and unmarked, binding sound; very good. Dual language text. A condescending colonialist treatise containing "information useful to the Labrador and other Canadian Eskimos, in adjusting to the white man's administration; includes sections on the British Empire, health, and work (trapping, handicrafts, etc.)" - Arctic Bibliography 1569. Scarce. .

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