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The history of the Five Indian Nations depending on the province of New-York in America.
[New-York]: Printed and sold by William Bradford, 1727
Physical Description: [2], xvii, [1], 119, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D727/ C688h
Accession number: 35510
Notes: Includes “A short vocabulary of some words and names used by the French authors, which are not generally understood by the English that understand the French language, and may therefore be useful to those that intend to read the French accounts, or compare them with the accounts now published” (p. xi-xiii), giving approximately 3 dozen terms (mostly place and tribal names) used by the French, in parallel columns with equivalent terms used by the English and/or the Five Nations tribes (also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, including the old Five Nations of New York: Mohawks, Oneydoes, Onnondagas, Cayugas, and Sennekas).
Printed as part 1 only; parts 1 & 2 first published under title: The history of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are dependent on the province of New York in America, and are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world, London, 1747.
JCB copy imperfect: JCB Cat. lists folded map in collation; no map found in this copy. Engraved portrait of author from later edition bound as frontispiece.
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Languages: Cayuga / Iroquoian languages / Mohawk / Oneida / Onondaga / Seneca
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
