Item #52789 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

J. C. Pilling's copy

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; title page printed in red and black; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; hinges cracked, some rubbing, top third of spine perished; good and sound. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a Newberry release stamp on the verso of the front free endpaper, a small Newberry bookplate on the front pastedown, and a small Newberry rubber stamp on the title. 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. A precursor, of sorts, to Pilling's own Proof-sheets. 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 #52789

Price: $125.00