NATIVE
AMERICANA
NATIVE
AMERICANA
By
Fr. “Double
Leaf/Fixed
Star”
(Algonquian
& Iroquois Philology). Cuoq, Jean-André.
Études philologiques sur quelques langues sauvages de l’Amérique.
Par N.O. Montréal: Dawson Brothers, 1866. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.6"). 160 pp.
Click the middle or right image for an enlargement. Father Cuoq (1821–98) was an extremely accomplished linguist as evidenced by his becoming fluent in both Algonquin and Iroquois; Field (Indian Bibliography, p. 93) writes glowingly of his mastery of these languages. His life as a missionary of the Order of Sulpitians, notably among the Nipissing at Lake of Two Mountains, certainly aided in his scholarly achievement.
• Pilling, Algonquian, 100-101; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 952; Field 391; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Algonkin-14; Sabin 17980. Not in Banks; not in Evans, Masinanhikan. Original printed green wrappers, spine reinforced some time ago, edges chipped. Half-title with pencilled annotations. First text page rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution; pages otherwise clean.
This entry is repeated in the
The Eliot Indian Bible — A Leaf from Daniel/Hosea (A
Leaf from the “Indian Bible”).
Bible. Algonquian. Eliot.
1663.
Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk
Wusku Testament. Ne quoshkinnumuk nashpe Wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit John
Eliot. Nahohtãoeu ontchetãoe printeuoomuk. Cambridge [Mass.]:
Printeuoop nashpe Samuel Green kah Marmaduke Johnson, 1663. 4to (19 cm; 7.5").
[1] f.
Click the image for an enlargement. The text is Daniel 12:3 (being the end of Daniel's apocalyptic vision of the end days) though Hosea 1–3:5 (with its promises/foretelling of Israel's destruction). It is printed in roman brevier type, in double-column format, with generally 62 lines per column. It took 139 and a half weeks to set the type and print the Bible.
The Bible was a monumental undertaking and achievement in its day and it remains an American monument today.
• Evans 73; Wing (rev. ed.) B2755; ESTC W38287; Darlow & Moule 6737; Pilling, Algonquian, 139–152; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 1175–77; Winship, Cambridge Press, pp. 208–44. Removed, inner margin slightly irregular; edges chipped (never approaching text) and light soiling. 
Definitely, a treasure. (26071)
Alfredo
Chavero's Copy
Amador, Elías.
Bosquejo historico de Zacatecas. [Tomo primero]. Zacatecas: Escuela de Artes
y Oficios en Guadalupe, 1892. 8vo (22 cm; 8.75"). viii, 620, vii, xvi pp., [2]
ff.; 6 plates.
pre-Contact
to 1810. The second volume seems not to have been published until 1943.
Provenance: Alfredo Chavero's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown and his stamp on the title-page.
• Contemporary half black morocco over green and grey stone-patterned boards. A very good copy. (21739)
“Iroquoian”
Studies
1915
Barbeau, Cornelius Marius. ...Classification
of Iroquoian radicals with subjective pronominal prefixes. Ottawa: Government
Printing Bureau, 1915. Large 8vo. [2] ff., 30 pp.
• Not in Banks. Not in Evans. Stapled into original stiff printed wrappers, very good condition. Inner hinges of cloth tape.
The Andrade Set in
Quarter Red Morocco Barcía, Andrés González de. Ensayo cronologico, para la historia general de la Florida. Madrid: Imprenta de los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, 1829. 12mo. 2 vols. I: [2] ff., 508 pp., fold. table. II: [2] ff., 512 pp.
Click the page-images for enlargements. The present edition forms volumes 8 and 9 of the series Historia de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo.
Provenance: Bookplate of the great 19th-century Mexican collector J. M. Andrade on the front pastedown of each volume.
• This edition not in Sabin. 19th-century quarter red morocco with red textured cloth sides. Spine with raised bands and very good gilt tooling including center devices in spine compartments. Interiors clean. A very good set. (25271)
U.S. Cavalry, including the“Buffalo Soldiers” Brackett, Albert G. History of the United States cavalry; from the formation of the federal government to the 1st of June, 1863; to which is added a list of all the cavalry regiments, with the names of their commanders, which have been in the United States service since the breaking out of the rebellion. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 12mo. 337, [1 (blank)], 2 (ads) pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Sabin 7195. Publisher's brown cloth, with crossed sabers on the front cover; cloth discolored, and breaking across back joint. Ex–social club library: call number in a neat 19th-century hand on endpaper and fly-leaf, rubber-stamp on title- and a few other pages. No other markings. Endpapers with old waterstaining, this continuing faintly on first few leaves in some inner margins; a few early margins with short tears. Withal, a good copy. (26282)
“Genuine Specimens of Native Literature”Maya & English Presentations — With Notes Brinton, Daniel Garrison, ed. The Maya chronicles. Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1882. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). [2], 279, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 
First printing in the U.S. of any pre-Columbian text in the original Maya. This is no. I in the “Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature” series, opening with a description of the Maya and including selections from the books of Chilam Balam of Mani, Tizimin, and Chumayel, along with the chronicle of Chac Xulub Chen. Each Mayan text is accompanied by an English translation and the editor's notes.
• Not in Pilling, Proof-sheets; not in Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection. Publisher's brown textured cloth framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked, corners and spine extremities a little rubbed, spine a bit sunned. Ex–social club library: call number on front fly-leaf, half-title and title-page rubber-stamped. No other markings. (26511)
You Will Find
NO Prettier Copy! Brooks, Elbridge S. The true story of the United States of America told for young people. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., © 1897. 4to. Frontis., [2], 246 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black, white, and red.
• Spine very slightly sunned, otherwise a lovely copy. Pages clean. (26919)
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