IV PREFACE. 



scripts are entered under tlie author when known, under the dialect to 

 which they refer when he is not known. 



Each author's name, with his title, etc., is entered m full bat once, 

 i. e., in its alphabetic order. Every other mention of him is by surnauie 

 and initials only, except in those rare cases when two persons of the 

 same surname have also the same initials. 



All titular matter, including cross-references thereto, is in a larger 

 type, all collations, descriptions, notes, and index matter in a smaller 

 type. 



In detailing contents and in adding notes respecting contents, the 

 spelling of proper names used in the particular work itself has been 

 followed, and so far as possible the language of the respective w^riters 

 is given. In the index entries of tribal names the compiler has adopt'.d 

 that si)elliug whicli seemed to him the best. As a general rule initial 

 caps have been used in titular matter in only two cases: first, for proper 

 names, and second, when the word actually appears on the title-page 

 with an initial cap and with the remainder in small caps or lower-case 

 letters. In giving titles in the German language the capitals in the case 

 of all substantives have been respected. 



Each title not seen by the compiler is marked with an asterisk within 

 curves, and usually its source is given. 



There are in the present catalogue 04:!> titular entries, of which 795 

 relate to printed books and articles and 154 to manuscripts. Of these, 

 856 have been seen and described by the compiler — 751 of the prints 

 and 105 of the manuscripts, leaving as derived from outside sources 44 

 printed works and 49 manuscrii)ts. Of those unseen by the writer, titles 

 and descriptions of more than three-fourths of the former and nearly 

 half of the latter have been received from persons who have actually 

 seen the works and described them for him. 



In addition to these, there are given 04 full titles of printed covers, 

 second and third volumes, etc., all of which have been seen and de- 

 scribed by the compiler ; while in the notes mention is made of 134 

 printed works, 90 of which have been seen and 44 derived from other 

 (mostly printed) sources. 



So far as possible, comparison has been made direct with the respect- 

 ive works during the reading of the proof sheets of this bibliography. 

 For this purpose, besides his own books, the writer has had access to the 

 libraries of Congress, the Bureau of Ethnolog}', the l^ational Museum, 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and Maj. J. W. Powell, and to one or two 

 other private libraries in this city. Dr. George H. Moore has kindly 

 aided in this respect with those in the Lenox Library, and Mr. Wil- 

 berforce Eames has compared the titles of books contained in his own 

 library. The result is that of the 850 works described by the compiler 

 (le visu, comparison of proof has been made direct with the original 

 sources in the case of 579. 



