Mexican Sacrifices, etc. including a phrenological head with folding table, vellum, £2. 10s Perusic, 1579 "Valades fut l'un des premiers religieux qui visitèrent l'Amérique. Il donne des renseignements précieux sur la manière employée pour catéchiser les Indiens." "La Rhetorica Christiana est un ouvrage fort bien écrit et rempli de notions intéressantes sur les Indigènes dn Mexique. Les pages qu'il (Valades) consacre à l'examen de leurs arts et sciences, ce qu'il dit de la variété de leur systême graphique, prouve qu'il les connaissait et qu'il avait su les apprécier.”—Brasseur de Bourbourg. 30033 VARNHAGEN, Os Indios Bravos-see in alphabet of Portuguese America. 30034 WAFER (Lionel) New Voyage and description of the Isthmus of America, giving an account of the ... Indian Inhabitants, manners, customs, . . . language, etc. sm. 8vo. 3 large plates, no map, calf, 10s their ... 1699 30035 YARROW (H. C.) Study of Mortuary Customs among the North American Indians, 4to. sd. 68 Washington, Smiths. Inst. 1880 LANGUAGES. 1. General Works. 30035*BRINTON (Daniel G.) the Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as set forth by William von Humboldt, with translation of an unpublished memoir by him on the American verb, 8vo. bds. 25s Privately printed, Philadelphia, 1885 With two other tracts by the same accomplished author: "American Languages and how we should study them"; and "the Taensa Grammar and Dictionary" (of Haumonté) proved to be a deception. 30036 BUSCHMANN (J. C. E.) der Athapaskische Sprachstamm, 4to. bds. 78 6d 30037 30038 Berlin, 1856 SPUREN DER AZTEKISCHEN SPRACHE IM NÖRDLICHEN MEXICO und höheren Amerikanischen Norden; zugleich eine Musterung der Völker und Sprachen des nördlichen Mexico's und der Westseite Nordamerika's von Guadalaxara an bis zum Eismeer, stout 4to. sd. £2. 1859 The most valuable and comprehensive work that has yet been published upon the Ethnology and Philology of California, New Mexico, Texas, and North-West America generally. It is a thoroughly scientific book, the linguistic importance of which will be chiefly considered in the regions of New California. Das Apache als eine Athapaskische Sprache erwiesen; die Verwandtschafts-Verhältnisse der Athapaskischen Sprachen; Systematische Worttafel des Athapaskischen Sprachstamms— together 3 parts, 4to. bds. 10s 1860-63 30039 HERVAS (L.) Catalogo delle lingue conosciute, Origine degl' Idiomi, Aritmetica delle Nazioni, 3 vols. sm. 4to. half morocco, 24s Cesena, 1784-5 30040 ICAZBALCETA (Joaquin Garcia) Apuntes para un catalogo de Escritores en lenguas indigenas de America, 12mo. hf. morocco, £2.12s 6d Mexico, 1866 Only sixty copies were printed of this valuable contribution to the bibliography of American linguistics. The errors of preceding works make indispensable. 30041 KRUSENSTERN (A. J. v.) Wörter-Sammlungen aus den Sprachen. 12s 2. Language of Labrador and Greenland. 30046 BIBLE. Gospels of SS. Matthew, Mark, and Luke, in Eskimo, by the Missionaries of the Unitas Fratrum, 8vo. calf, 3s 6d 30047 London, 1813 Testamentetak (New Testament, in Eskimo), 12mo. Hafn. 1750 bound, 5s 1840 30048 EGEDE (Paul) Dictionarium Grönlandico-Danico-Latinum, 12mo. with Danish and Latin Indexes, bds. 15s 30049 ESKIMAUX and English (and English-Eskimaux) Vocabulary, oblong 12mo. 16 and 160 pages, cloth, 3s 6d 30050 FABRICIUS (Oth.) Grönlandsk Grammatica, 12mo. half red morocco, 25s Kjöbenh. 1791 30051 30052 1850 Grönlandsk Grammatica, andet oplag, 12mo. hf. calf, 12s; or, calf neat, 14s 1801 Grönlandske Ordbog, forbedret og foröget, thick 12mo. 800 pp. with Danish index, hf. bd. 20s Kjöbenh. 1804 30053 KLEINSCHMIDT (S.) Grammatik der grönländischen Sprache, 8vo. sd. 5s the same, 8vo. hf. calf, uncut, 6s Berlin, 1851 1851 30054 30055 KRAGH (Peter) Okallontit, Sabbatinne akkudleesiksæt, Evangeliumit sukuïautejt okiokun attuægeksæt (Sermons, in Eskimo), 12mo. calf, 5s Kjöben. 1833 30056 NEW TESTAMENT, in Eskimo, by Fabricius and Wolf, sm. 8vo. calf, Kjöbenhavnime, 1827 78 6d 30057 PROVERBS OF SOLOMON and Books of the minor Prophets, in Eskimo, by N. G. Wolf and Kragh, 12mo. calf, 28 1828 30058 RINK (H.) Eskimoiske Eventyr og Sagn, med Supplement, oversatte, 2 parts in 1 vol. royal 8vo. portrait of Eskimos, and plates, hf. bd. 20s Kjöben. 1866-71 Vocabulaire Français-Esquimaux, Dialecte des Tchiglit des bouches du Mackenzie et de l'Anderson, 4to. (pub. 50 fr.), sd. 32s 30059 1876 The last two works are Vols. 2 and 3 of the Bibliothèque de linguistique d'ethnographie américane, publiée par Alph. L. Pinart. 3. Languages of Anglo-French America. 30060 DU PONCEAU, Mémoire sur le Système Grammatical des Langues de quelques Nations Indiennes de l'Amérique du Nord, 8vo. pp. xvi and 464, sd. 5s; or, bds. 6s the same, royal 8vo. Large paper, sd. 9s Paris, 1838 1838 30061 30062 ETUDES Philologiques sur quelques Langues Sauvages de l'Amérique, par N. O., ancien missionaire, 8vo. sd. 9s Montreal, 1866 30063 HUBBARD (L. L.) Some Indian Place-Names in N. Maine, with explanations and a cross-index, 8vo. map, sd. 5s Boston, 1884 Part of the Appendix to "Woods and Lakes of Maine," by the same author. 30064 TRUMBULL (J. Hammond) Origin and Early Progress of Indian Missions in New England, with a List of Books in the Indian language printed at Cambridge and Boston, 1653-1721; royal 8vo. uncut, 30s Privately printed, Worcester, Mass. 1874 The first bibliography of its kind, and for that reason comparatively imperfect; but nevertheless one of high value, far surpassing in extent and correctness the entire aggregate of similar notices that might be gathered from all previous printed sources of information. The author is probably the only person in the world who knows the language concerning which he writes. Algonkin : 30065 CATECHISMO dei Missionari Cattolici in lingua Algonchina, pubbl. per E. Teza, 8vo. sd. 9s Pisa, 1872 With Latin and French translation, and Vocabulary. 30066 TRUMBULL (J. H.) Notes on Forty Algonkin Versions of the Lord's Prayer, 8vo. sd. 7s 6d Hartford, 1873 Choctaw: 30067 CHAHTA HOLISSO (Choctaw Spelling-Book), third edition, sm. 8vo. woodcuts, bds. 18s Boston, 1835 30068 NEW TESTAMENT, in Choctaw, 12mo. bound, 58 New York, 1858 Cree, Ochipwa, Chippeway: 30069 BARAGA (Rev. F.) Grammar of the Otchipwe Language, the language spoken by the Chippewa Indians, which is also spoken by the Algonquin, Otawa and Potawatami Indians, 576 pp. Detroit, 1850; Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language (OtchipweEnglish and English-Otchipwe), 662 pp. double cols. Cincinnati, 1853-2 vols. stout 12mo. cloth, £6. 10s 1850-53 The best works on the Otchipwe language. Very rare, since they were privately printed, and distributed only among the missionaries. CREE, OCHIPWA, CHIPPEWAY-continued. 30070 BIBLE, in the Cree language and special Cree characters, 8vo. morocco, gilt edges, 20s 1861 30071 COMMON Prayer, in Cree of Rupert's Land, 12mo. bd. 2s 1855 30072 HORDEN (J.) Grammar of the Cree language, 12mo. sd. 5s 1881 30073 HowSE's Grammar of the Cree language, and Analysis of the Chippeway dialect, 8vo. portrait, cloth, 5s the same, 8vo. cloth 1844 1865 (c. 1860) 30073*30074 KIRKBY (Rev. W. W.) Manual of Devotion and Instruction for the Slave Indians of McKenzie River, in Cree, 12mo. bds. 2s 30075 ST. JOHN, Gospel of, in Cree of Rupert's Land, 12mo. calf, 28 1855 30076 PART of the DISCIPLINE of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, translated (into Chippewa) by Peter Jones, 12mo. bds. 58 Toronto, 1835 30077 SKETCH of a Grammar, Vocabulary and Phrase book, Chipwaw and English, 4to. original MS. 75 pp. bds. 18s About 1780 Hidatsa : 30078 MATTHEWS (W.) Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa (Minnetarces, Grosventres of the Missouri), large 8vo. sd. 12s 30079 Huron: N.Y. 1873 No. 1 of Part II of Shea's Libr. of Linguistics. 30080 SAGARD (G.) Dictionnaire de la langue Huronne, 8vo. beautifully printed in facsimile of the original, bds. 15s Micmac: Paris, 1632 (Arras, 1865) 30081 VETROMIL (Eugene) Account of the Micmac Indians, 4to. 16 closely written pages of MS. compiled for the use of an American missionary, sd. 21s 1862 An extremely curious treatise, giving the origin and meaning of a great number of Indian names, and thereby illustrating the history and anthropology of Nova Scotia. Vetromil had been for many years a missionary. . Mohawk: 30082 THE MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER, the Litany, Church Catechism, Family Prayers, and several chapters of the Old and New-Testament, translated into the Mahaque Indian Language, by LAWRENCE CLAESSE, Interpreter to William Andrews. NE ORHOENGENE NEONI YOGARASKHAGH YONDEREANAYEN DAGHKWA sm. 4to. titles mended and a few words restored in facsimile, crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £48. New York, William Bradford, 1715 EXCESSIVELY RARE. There was no copy in the Brinley collection, notwithstanding its special richness in books of this kind. As a rare work of American interest, and as a liturgical curiosity, this volume is one which must awaken considerable interest. MOHAWK-continued. 30083 BRUYAS (Jas.) Radical Words of the Mohawk Language, with their Derivatives (explained in French), roy. 8vo. 123 pp. sd. 18s; or, hf. morocco, 20s New York, 1862 No. X of Shea's Libr. of Linguistics. Bruyas was a Jesuit Missionary, who went to Canada in 1666, and was Superior of Missions in Canada from 1893 to 1700. 30084 LUTHERI Catechismus öfwersatt ра AMERICAN-VIRGINISKE Spraket [cum Vocabulario Barbaro Virgineorum], 12mo. map of NOVA SUECIA (PENNSYLVANIA), fine copy, calf, with the cypher of Charles XI of Sweden on sides, rare, £8. 8s Stockholm, 1696 Translated between 1642 and 1619 by John CAMPANIUS, whose grandson Thomas, the author of the account of Nova Suecia, has put his name to the bottom of the Map. 30085 SAINT JOHN, Gospel, in Mohawk [by John Norton], 12mo. calf, 3s 6d Mohican: (1804) 30086 ELIOT (John) the Indian Primer ... 1669, to which is prefixed the Indian Covenanting Confession, reprinted from the originals in the library of the University of Edinburgh, by John Small, 12mo. cloth, 5s Edinburgh, 1880 Natik or Massachusi : ELIOT'S BIBLE AND TESTAMENT- -see ante p. 1606. 30087 MATHER (Cotton) KEKUTTOOHKAONK PAPAUME KUHQUTTUMMOONK A Discourse concerning the Institution and observation of the Lord's-Day. Delivered in a Lecture, at Boston, 4 d. I m. 1703, the English text and the Indian version by EXPERIENCE MAYHEW, printed on collateral pages, fine copy, with uncut leaves, in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £50. Boston, B. Green, 1707 EXCESSIVELY RARE: there was no copy in the magnificent Brinley collection. There are two titles, the Natik on the left, the English on the right; on the reverse of the latter the first page of the Indian translation is printed, faced by the first page of the English. These are paged 1, 1, and the two texts proceed then side by side, 2, 2, 3, 3, and so on till they finish on pages 36, 36. Four pages succeed, containing the first 28 verses of John in Indian and English. а Quiripi: 30088 PIERSON (Rev. Abraham) Some Helps for the Indians: Catechism in the language of the Quiripi Indians of New Haven Colony, reprinted from the original edition, Cambridge, 1658, with an introduction, by J. H. Trumbull, 8vo. sd. £2. 2s Hartford, 1873 Of the original edition only two copies are known. One of these is in the library of Mr. James Lenox, of New York; the other is in the British Museum. Only 100 copies of this reprint were printed. |