Brinton, Daniel

The Taensa grammar and dictionary. A deception exposed [drop title]

[Chicago, IL: F. H. Revell], 1885. 8vo, pp. [3], 110-114, [4]; extracted from the American Antiquarian; later stiff brown boards backed in burgundy cloth, staple bound. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate with a Newberry Library release stamp in bottom corner of the first leaf. In 1882 L. Adam Parisot published what he claimed to be a French translation of a Spanish manuscript on the language and folksongs of the Taensa. Brinton's refutation, first published in the American Antiquarian, exposed it as a hoax. Item #49691

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