[Russia-USA: extremely rare] Zamechaniya o Koloshenskom i Kadiakskom yazykakh i otchasti o prochikh rossiysko-amerikanskikh s prisovokupleniyem rossiysko-koloshenskogo slovarya, soderzhashchego boleye 1000 slov, iz koikh na nekotoryye sdelany poyasneniya. Sostavil Ivan Veniaminov v Sitkhe: Remarks About the Koloshensky and Kodiak Languages and Partly About Other Russian-American with the Addition of a Russian-Koloshensky Dictionary Containing More Than 1000 Words, from Which Explanations Are Made for Some. Compiled by Ivan Veniaminov in Sit

Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797 – 1879), also known as Saint Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow (Russian: Святитель Иннокентий Митрополит Московский) was a Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. Remembered for his missionary work, scholarship, and leadership in Alaska and the Russian Far East during the 19th century, he is known for his abilities as a scholar, linguist, and administrator, as well as his great zeal for his work.

In these territories he learned several languages and dialects of the indigenous peoples. He wrote many of the earliest scholarly works about the native peoples of Alaska, including dictionaries and grammars for their languages for which he devised writing systems; also, he wrote religious works in, and translated parts of the Bible into, several of these languages.

At the beginning of 1823, Bishop Michael of Irkutsk received instructions to send a priest to the island of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. After a difficult yearlong journey by land and water, they arrived at Unalaska on July 29, 1824.

Father Ioann's parish included the island of Unalaska and the neighboring groups of Fox and Pribilof islands, occupied by indigenous people who had been converted to Christianity before his arrival. By his travels through the islands, Father Ioann Veniaminov became familiar with the local dialects. In a short time he mastered six of the dialects. He devised an alphabet using Cyrillic letters for the most widely used dialect, the Unangan dialect of Aleut.

In 1834, Father Ioann was transferred to Sitka Island, to the town of Novoarkhangelsk, later called Sitka. He devoted himself to the Tlingit people and studied their language and customs. From his studies there, he wrote the scholarly works Notes on the Kolushchan and Kodiak Tongues and Other Dialects of the Russo-American Territories, with a Russian-Kolushchan Glossary.

The tears of the front cover are glued with strips of paper, small fraying, a small loss of the back cover is glued with a sheet of paper, pages 31-32 and a folding table - copies.

Despite the losses, this very interesting in content, the rarest book will surely find its buyer. A big rarity, like all books about Russian America. Not found on sale. Worldcat does not show a single copy in the libraries of the world.