Sales catalogue 625: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/162
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 625: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    65/68 page 63
    THe First ENcuisH-INpIAN DicTIONaryY. THE Eartiest PrintED Book By THE FOUNDER oF RHODE IsLAND. [253] WILLIAMS (Roger). A Key into the Language of America: or, an help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America, called New England. Together, with briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners and Worships, etc., of the aforesaid Natives, in Peace and Warre, in Life and Death. 12mo. Morocco. London, 1643. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, FRONTISPIECE.) £225 Church Catalogue 460. “This is the earliest printed book by Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and the first serious attempt to record the vocabulary of the native language of the Massachusetts and neighbouring Indians . . . To it he added some account of the natives and their surroundings. The book consists of a series of classified vocabularies, and is in fact the first dictionary of English and Indian. Scattered through the work are explanatory observations on the language and contributions in verse. It is the first book of a philological character, on the aboriginal languages north of Mexico, with the exception of Father Sagard’s Huron dictionary and a short vocabulary in Wood’s New Englands Prospect, in which he may have been assisted by Williams.” [254] [WILSON, Thos.]. The Knowledge and Practice of Christianity made Easy to the Meanest Capacities: or, An Essay towards an Instruction for the Indians. . .. In twenty Dialogues. 12mo. Calf. London; 178i. &2 15s The author in his preface states that he was led to write this work after a conversation with General Oglethorpe concerning the character of the Indians of Georgia. [255] WILSON (Alex). BONAPARTE (Chs. Lucian) JARDINE (Sir Wm.). American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Portrait and g7 finely coloured plates of birds. 3 vols., 8vo. Half morocco. London and Edinburgh, 1832. &8 10s Containing in addition, accounts of many travels through the U.S.A. in search of birds. Tue First DetTaILED ACCOUNT OF MASSACHUSETTS. [256] WOOD (William). Nevv Englands Prospect. A true, lively, and experimental description of that part of America, commonly called Nevv England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind travelling Reader, or benefit the future Voyager. With folding woodcut map of the South part of Nevv-England, as it 1s Planted this yeare, 1634. First Epirion. Small 4to. Half morocco. London, Thomas Cotes for John Bellamie, 1634. (SEE ILLUSTRATION OPPOSITE.) £285 “. . . The first detailed account of Massachusetts, gives a topographical account of the Massachusetts colony as far as it then extended, and also a full description of its fauna and flora. “The second part treats “Of the Indians, their persons, cloathings, diet, natures, customs, lawes, mariages, worships, conjurations, warres, games, hunting, fishings, sports, language, death, and burials.’ ‘““An Indian vocabulary of five pages is placed at the end, earlier than the works of Roger Williams and John Eliot. In the compilation of this vocabulary Wood may have been assisted by Roger Williams, who before he lived at Salem had made considerable progress in the Indian (Continued over) [ 63 |]
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3