P)LI()(;raphy of the muskhogean languages. 



IjY James C. Pilling. 



[An asterisk witbiuparoutlK'sos iudii'utes that the conipikr has seen uo copy of tbo work rofcrrctl to.] 



A. 



Act of faith [Choctaw]. Soc Williams 

 (L. S.) 



Actsoft ho apostles » ' * Choctaw. 

 Sco Byiugton (C.) 



Adair (James). The | history | of the | 

 Auiericau Iiuliaus ; [ particularly ] Those 

 Nations adjoiuiug to the Missisippi 

 [sic], cast and \ west Florida, Georgia, 

 South and I North Carolina, and Vir- 

 ginia: j containing] An account of their 

 Origin, Language, Manners, Religious 

 and I Civil Customs, Laws, Form of Gov- 

 ernment, Punishments, Conduct in | 

 War and Domestic Life, their Ilahits, 

 Diet, Agriculture, Mauu- 1 factures, Dis- 

 eases and Method of Cure, and other 

 Particulars, sufli- \ cieut to render it | 

 a I complete Indian system. \ With | Ob- 

 servations on former Historians, the 

 Conduct of our Colony | Governors, Su- 

 perintendents, Missionaries, tVc. | Also ] 

 an appendix, containing A Descrip- 

 tion of the Floridas, and the Missisippi 

 [_8ic'] Lands, with their Produc- tions — 

 The Benefits of colonising Georgiana, 

 and civilizing the Indiaus — And the 



■ way to make all the Colonies more val- 

 uable to the Mother Country. | With a 

 uew Map of the Country referred to in 

 the History. By James Adair, Esquire, | 

 A Trader with the Indians, and Resi- 

 dent in their Country for Forty Years. | 

 London: Printed for Edward and 

 Charles Dilly, in the Ponltry. 1 

 MDCCLXXV [1775]. 



Half title verso blank 1 1. title verso blank 1 1. 

 dedication 2 II. preface 1 1. contents 1 1. text pp. 

 1-464, map, 4°. 



MUSK 1 



Adair (J.) — Continued. 



Argument v, Their language and dialects, 

 pp. 37-74; Argument vi. Their niannerof count- 

 ing time, PI). 74-80; and Argument xxii, Their 

 choice of names adapted to their circumstances, 

 pp. 191-194, contain terms in various Indian 

 languages, among thcni tho Choktali, Chik- 

 kasali, and Muskohgo — Chiklcasah and Chok- 

 tah numerals 1-11, 20, 100, 1000, pp. 78-79.— Mus- 

 kohge numerals 1-10, p. 79. 



Copies seen : Astor, Baiu-roft, Boston Athe- 

 ua'ura, Brinton, British Museum, ISrown, Bu- 

 reau of Ethnology, Congress, Dunbar. Lenox, 

 Massachusetts Historical Societj', Trumbull, 

 Watkinson. 



Priced in Stevens's Nuggets, No. 33, \l. Is. 

 Brought at tho Field sale, No. 13, .$9., 50 ; at the 

 Itlonzies, No. 7, half crushed blue levant mo- 

 rocco, gilt top, uncut, .$15.50; at the Squier, 

 No. 7, $9.75. Priced by Lederc, 1878, No. 17, 

 50 fr. ; by Quaritch, No. 11C07, \l. 16«. At tho 

 Brinloy sale. No. 5352, an uncut copy brought 

 $7, and a broken copy. No. 5353, $5.50; at the 

 !Muri>by sale, No. 14, it sold for $12. Quaritch 

 again prices it. No. 29910, with "pencil notes," 

 2^ 10s., and another copy. No. 29911, 21. ; Clarke, 

 of Cincinnati, 188G, No.C254, $15; Stevens, cat. 

 for Dec. 1887, No. 3091, fine copy, half calf, 2/. 

 7s. M. ; Nield, of Bristol, Eng., cat. No. 132, No. 

 1, calf copy, 4i. ICs. 



I have seen a German translation, Breslau, 

 1782,8°, which contains no linguistics. (Brown.) 



Most of the linguistic matter was reprinted 

 in Adelung (J. C.) and Vater (J. S.), Jlithii- 

 dates, Berlin, lSOG-1817. 



Ileprinted in part as follows : 



History of the North American In- 

 dians, their customs, «fcc. By James 

 Adair. 



In King (V..), Antiquities of Mexico, vol. 8, 

 pp. 273-375, London, 1848, folio. 



Contains .Vrgumcuts i-xxiii of Adair's work, 

 followed by "Notes and illustrations to Adair's 

 History of the North American Indians," by 



