Author: [ROEST JR., C. VAN DER, TRANSLATION],
Title: Se'imoSoera Laolita i mPoeë Isa pai ana goeroenja. [First edition].
Description: Monado [Menado], s.n., 1912. Small 8°, original wrappers with cover title. 185pp. of Tobelorese text, index. The book of Jesaja the prophet, not to be mixed-up with Isa (Jesus the Prophet in Islam) translated into the Tobelorese language by a dutch reformed missionary minister who worked for an extended time amongst the Tobelorese of Sulawesi, on behalf of converted Tobelorese. Very fine unopened copy. A rare Menado (Sulawesi) imprint. (small circular ex-lib. stamp at corner of ti.-p.).

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