JAUSSEN, FLORENTIN-ÉTIENNE: - Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue Maorie. dialecte Tahitien. [Paris, St.Germain-en-Laye, imp. Toinon, 1861].

. 12mo. Pp. 56, 78, 1 blank leaf, pp. 92. Contemporary marbled paper boards, some paper loss, cloth spine, rubbed. No endpapers, pencil scribbles on paste downs. Exceedingly rare first edition published by the Catholic mission of Tahiti.Jaussen, French-born missionary who was the first bishop of Tahiti where he resided between 1848 and 1891. His Tahitian name was Tepano. In addition to this work, he published a catechism and a prayerbook in Tahitian. This is the first comprehensive linguistic work of Tahitian, comprising three parts; grammaire tahitien, dictionnaire tahitien-français and vocabulaire français-tahitien. At end pages 93-96 are missing but the vocabulary is complete. O'Reilly, Tahiti, 5765. Not in Zaunmüller or Vater.

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