JUANMARTI, JACONTI / SMITH, CORNELIUS COLE (Transl.): - [PHILIPPINES] A Grammar of the Maguindanao Tongue according to the manner of speaking it in the interior and on the south coast of the island of Mindanao. Washington 1906.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 80. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, rear cover with some stains. Ownership signature (Corporal Kraemer) on front paste down. Staining to lower right corner throughout. First edition. This is a translation from the Spanish work (Manila 1892) by Jacinto Juanmarti, a Catalan priest of the Society of Jesus who served in the Philippines in the second half of the 19th century. He compiled the earliest works on the language by a European. Maguindanao is spoken by the Maguindanao, a Muslim ethnic group living mainly in the southern Philippines. Provenance: Corporal Henry Kaemerer, Company J, 2nd US Infantry, Zamboanga, Mind[ano], P.I. At end two-pages of pencil notes by Kraemer of his itinerary in the Philippines and his return journey to the US (Montana). He was discharged January 12, 1909. Two printed cards are loosely inserted, the 1908 Christmas menu and a list of the US Infantry company.

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