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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Rouquette (A.) — Coutiuued. 



Contains "no words not found in published 

 dictionaries." 



3. Collection do Sermons en Chalita, tires de 

 passages du Kouveau Tostaincnt. 



4. Notes sur le langage CLialita. 



"These notes" the author iutbruiod me, "arc 

 numerous, many of them etymological, but not 

 J ot put in order so as to form a work ready fur 

 publication. In fact, I haro never had in view 

 the publication of any ot my work on the 

 Chalita language." 



Father Eouquette was born in New Orleans, 

 February 13, 1813, and died at the Hotel-Dieu, 

 in the same city, July 15, 1S87. His parents 

 were natives of Franco. He had been a mis- 

 aiouary among the Choctaws since 1859, and 

 was called Cliahta-Ima, which mraus, he says, 

 Choctawlike. Ho kindly furnished me the 

 foregoing list of his works on the Choctaw lan- 

 guage a .short time previous to his death, his 

 feeble condition preventing him from desciib- 

 ing them more in detail. Dr. Joseph Junes, of 

 Now Orleans, informs mo that the Very licv. 



Rouquette (A.) — Conliiiiied. 



H. Picharit, of Vicksburg, Miss., is said to have 

 charge of Father Eouquette's manuscripts. 



Rouquette (Dominique). Mcschac6- 

 b6enues j po6sies | par | Dominique 

 Rouquette. | [Three liues quotation.] 

 I [Design.] I 



Paris, j Librairio do Sauvaignat, | 

 Carrefour Bnssy, 1, et Quai Malaquais, 

 •3. I 1839. 



Half-title verso blank 1 1. title 1 1. pp. i-vi, 7- 

 102, 10=.—" Notes," pp. 143-159, contain mean- 

 ings of Choctaw terms occurring in the poems, 

 and on pp. 151-152 are some rcniarlcs on the 

 Choctaw language. 



Copies seen .- Dunbar. 



Ross (A. F.), editor. Sec ludian Mis- 

 sionary. 



Ross (William P.), editor. See ludiaii 

 Journal, 



s. 



Sablu (Joseph), A | dictionary | of I 

 Boolis relating to America, ! from its 

 di'-'covery to the present time. | Bj' 

 Joseph Sabiu. | Volume I[-XVII]. \ 

 [Three lines quotation.] j 



New-York ; ] Joseph Sabin, 84 Nassau 

 street, | 1868[-1888]. 



17 vols. 8° ; still in course of publication and 

 including thus far entries to " San I'raucisco." 

 Coutains titles of a number of works in the 

 Muskhogeau languages. Now edited by Mr. 

 Wilberforce Fames. 



Copies seen: Congress, Eames, Geological 

 Survey. 



See Field (T. W.) 



Joseph Sabin, bibliophile, born in Braunston, 

 Northamptonshire, England, December 9, 1821; 

 diedinErooklyn, N. T., June5, 1881. His father, 

 a mechanic, gave him a common-school educa- 

 tion, and apprenticed him to Charles Richards, 

 a bookseller and iiublisher of Oxford. Subse- 

 quently young Sabin oi)ened a similar store in 

 Oxford, and published " The XXXIX Articles 

 of the Church of England, with Scriptural 

 Troofs and llcforcuccs " (18U). In 1848 he 

 came to this country, and bought farms in 

 Texas and near Philadelphia. In 1850 he set- 

 tled in New York City, and in 185G ho went to 

 Philadelphia and sold old and rare books, but 

 at tho beginning of the civil war he returned to 

 New York and opened book shops, whore he 

 made a specialty of collecting rare books .and 

 prints. His knowledge of bibliography was 

 extended, and he o'ten traveled long distances 



Sabiu (J.) — Coutiuued. 



to secure unique volumes, crossing the ocean as 

 many as twenty-live times fui- this purpose. 

 Two of his sons became associated with him in 

 business, and two others were proprietors of a 

 similar enterprise in London. He prepared 

 catalogues of many valuable libraries, that 

 were sold by auction in New York after 1850, 

 among which werethosoof Dr. Samuel F. Jarvis 

 (1851), "William E. Burton (1861), Edwin Foirest 

 (1863), John Allen (IS6i), and Thomas W. 

 Fields (1875). He also sold tho collection of 

 William Mcnzies(1877). Mr. Sabin republished 

 in limited editions on large paper sever.al curi- 

 ous old works of American history, edited and 

 published for several years from 18C9 "TIk^ 

 American Bibliopolist : A literai-y register and 

 monthly catalogue of old and new book?," con- 

 tributed to the American Publishers' Ciicular, 

 and undertook tho publication in parts of a 

 "Dictionary of books relating to America, from 

 its discovery to tho present time," of which 

 thirteen volumes were issued, and ujion which 

 he was engaged, at the time of his death.— ^ij)- 

 pletoiVs Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



Salvation by Jesus Christ [Choctaw]. 

 See Williams (L.S.) 



Sanford (Ezekiel). A I history j of | the 

 United States | before the revolution : 

 I with I some account | of | Tho Abo- 

 rigines. I By Ezekiel Sanford. \ 



Philadelphia: | published by Anthony 

 Finley. | William Brown, Printer. [ 

 1819. 



