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Costumes civils [.] Amérique.
Paris: Pavard, 1787
Physical Description: 1 v. (with various pagings) : col. ill. ; 21 cm. (in case 24 cm.) (4to)
Call number: E787/ G768c
Accession number: 93-22
Notes: Contains brief lists of vocabulary, with French equivalents, for several native languages of the Americas as well as the South Sea islands. The following page numbers refer to separate pagings within each of the sectiors: “Moeurs et coutumes des habitans des isles Sandwich” (2 dozen entries, p. 20); “Notice historique sur les insulaires de Mangeéa” (13 entries, p. 3); “Moeurs et coutumes des Indiens, habitant les deserts du Chili” (6 entries, v.1, p. 6); “Moeurs et coutumes des Indiens de Quito, province du Perou” (29 entries, p. 13-14; “Notice historique sur les Mexicains” (9 entries, p. 12); “Moeurs et coutumes des habitans de Nootka” (2 dozen entries, p. 13-14); “Moeurs et coutumes des Oonalashkains” (17 entries including numbers, p. 8); “Notice historique sur les habitans de la baye Chacktoole a l’entrée de Norton” [Yupik] (10 words including numbers, v.1, p. 3-14 [i.e. 4]).
Authorship from BN, Quérard and Cioranescu. Edited by Sylvain Maréchal, 1750-1803. Forms the fourth volume of a set of four volumes, published under the title: Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus, Paris, 1784-1788, and edited by Sylvain Maréchal. Probably issued in parts or fascicles and subsequently bound together; this edition is arranged geographically, unlike the 1788 edition in which parts are bound in approximate alphabetical order with peoples of each continent spread throughout the four volumes.
JCB copy disbound, imperfect: lacks 31 of 81 plates and accompanying text.
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Languages: Aleut [for Unalaska] / Mapuche / Nahuatl / Nootka / Quechua / Unalaska /Yupik
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Arctic / North America / Spanish America
