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Les voyages de Lionnel Waffer contenant une description très-exacte de l'Isthme de l'Amerique & de toute la nouvelle Espagne. Traduits de l’Anglois par Monsieur de Montirat interprete des langues.
Paris: Claude Cellier, 1706
Physical Description: [8], 398, [4] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Call number: D706/ W128v
Accession number: 12525
Notes: "Des moeurs & des coûtumes des Indiens habitans de l'Isthmus.", p. 151-206, contains a discussion of the Cuna Indians of Panama and their language. Includes cardinal numbers in the Cuna language on p. 203 and a brief selection of vocabulary and phrases in the Cuna language on p. 205-206.
Translation of: A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America, first published, London, 1699.
John Carter Brown Library copy has a folded map of Mexico City not mentioned by other bibliographies bound to face p. 398.
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Languages: Cuna
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
