John Carter Brown Library

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Rasles, Sébastien, 1657-1724.

A dictionary of the Abnaki language, in North America.

[Cambridge]: [Charles Folsom], [1833]

Physical Description: p. 369-574 ; 28 cm.

Call number: E833/ D554o/ 1-SIZE

Accession number: 35555

Notes: Dictionary printed in two columns. Includes French to Abenaki dictionary: p. [377]-546; Abenaki to French dictionary p. [547]-565. “Introductory memoir” by John Pickering: p. [370]-374; “Supplementary Notes and Observations on Father Rasles’ Dictionary” by the Editor, including notes on the alphabet used by Rasles and on the grammar of nouns and verbs. JCB copy excised from the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New series, vol. 1, and bound separately.

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Languages: Abenaki

Genre: Dictionary / Grammar

Region: North America