Item #49702 The literature of American aboriginal languages. With additions and corrections by Prof. Wm. W. Turner. Edited by Nicholas Trubner. Hermann E. Ludewig.

The literature of American aboriginal languages. With additions and corrections by Prof. Wm. W. Turner. Edited by Nicholas Trubner.

London: Trübner & Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 258; later brown library cloth, gilt title and call number on spine, t.e.g.; pencil marks in margins, else very good and sound. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with library label on pastedown, blindstamps on title page and p. 101, and release stamp on flyleaf. An uncommon and excellent reference for language books of native North and South Americans, arranged alphabetically by tribe, with lists of word books, vocabularies, grammars, and grammatical notices for each. We use it here regularly. Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2348a; Field 959: "It contains notices of treatises on the languages and dialect spoken by 1030 tribes or by aboriginal peoples, known under as many names; and as a monument of industry is scarcely excelled." Item #49702

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