WAKASHAN LANGUAGES. 



43 



Lubbock (J.) — Contiuued. 



London | Longmans, Green, andco | 

 1889 I All rights reserved 



Half-title verso names of printers 1 1. frontis- 

 piece 1 1. title verso blank 1 1. preface (dated 

 February, 1870) pp. vii-x. contents pp. xi-xvi, 

 illustrations pp. xvii-xviii, list of principal 

 ■works quoted pp. xix-xxiii, text pp. 1-486, 

 appendix pp. 487-529, notes pp. 531-539, index 

 pp. 541-554, list of works by the same author 

 verso blank 1 1. live other plates, 8°. 



Linguistic contents as under titles above, p. 

 432. 



Copies seen : Eames. 



Ludew^ig (Hermann Ernst). The | liter- 

 atiire | of | American aboriginal lan- 

 guages. I By I Hermann E. Ludewig. | 

 With additions and corrections | by 

 professor Wm. W. Turner. | Edited by 

 Nicolas Triibuer. | 



London : Triibner and co., 60, Pater- 

 noster row. I MDCCCLVIII [1858]. 



Half-title "Triibner's bibliotheca glottica 

 I" verso blank 1 1. title as above verso name of 

 printer 1 1. preface pp. v-viii, contents verso 

 blank 1 l.editor'aadvertisementpp.ix-xii, bio- 

 graphical memoir pp. xiii-xiv, introductory 

 bibliographical notices pp. xv-xxiv, text pp. 1- 

 209, addenda, pp. 210-246, index pp. 247-256, 

 errata pp. 257-258, 8°. Arranged alphabetically 

 by languages. Addenda by Wm.W. Turner and 

 Nicolas Triibuer, pp. 210-246. 



Contains a listof grammars and vocabularies 

 of American languages and among them those 

 of the following peoples : 



American languages generally, pp. xv-xxiv ; 

 Fuca Strait, p. 74; Haeeltzuk, Hailtsa, p. 80; 

 Naaa (including some "Wakashan), p. 130; 

 Nutka, Wakash, pp. 135-136, 233; Tlaoquatch, 

 p. 188. 



Copies seen: Bureau of Ethnology, Congress, 

 Eames, Pilling. 



At the Fischer sale, no. 990, a copy brought 5s. 

 6d. ; at the Field sale, no. 1403, $2.63; at the 

 Squiersale, uo.G99, $2.62; another copy, no. 1906, 

 $2.38. Priced by Leclerc, 1878, no. 2075, 15 fr. 

 The Pinart copy, no. 565, sold for 25 fr., and 

 the Murphy copy, no. 1540, for $2.50. 



"Dr. Ludewig has himself so fully detailed 

 the plan and purport of this work that little 

 more remains for me to add beyond the mere 

 statement of the origin of my connection with 

 the publication and the mention of such addi- 

 tions for which I alone am responsible, .lud 

 which, during its progress through the press, 

 have gradually accumulated to about one-sixth 

 of the wliole. This is but an act of justice to the 

 memory of Dr. Ludewig, because at the timeot 

 his death, in December, 1856, no more than 172 

 pages were printed oil", and these constitute the 

 only portion of the work which had the benefit 

 of his valuable personal and tiual revision. 

 "Similarity of pursuits led, during my stay 



Ludewig (H. E.) — Continued. 



in Xew York in 1855, to an intimacy with Dr. 

 Ludewig, during which he mentioned that he, 

 like myself, had been making bibliographical 

 memoranda for years of all books which serve 

 to illustrate the history of spoken language. 

 As a first section of a more extended work on 

 the literary history of language generally, he 

 had prepared a bibliographical memoir of the 

 remains of the.aboriginal languagesof America. 

 The manuscript had been deposited by him in 

 the library of the Ethnological Society at New 

 York, but at my request he at once most kindly 

 placed it at my disposal, stipulating only that 

 it should be printed in Europe, under my per- 

 sonal superintendence. 



"Upon my return to England, I lost no time 

 in carrying out the trust thus confided to me, 

 intending then to confine myself simply to pro- 

 ducing a correct copy of my friend's manuscript. 

 But it soon became obvious that the transcript 

 had been hastily made, and but for the valuable 

 assistance of literary friends, both in this 

 country and in America, the work would prob- 

 ably have been abandoned. My thanks are more 

 particularly due to Mr. E. G. Sqnier, and to 

 Prof. William TV. Turner, of Washington, by 

 whose considerate and valuable cooperation 

 many difficulties were cleared away and my edi- 

 torial labors greatly lightened. This encouraged 

 me to spare neither per.sonal labor nor expense 

 in the attempt to render the work as perfect as 

 possible, with what success must be left to 

 the judgmentof those who can fairly appreciate 

 the labors of a pioneer in any new field of lit- 

 erary research." — Editor's advertisement. 



"Dr. Ludewig, though but little known in 

 this country [England], was held in consider- 

 able esteem as a j urist, both in Germany and the 

 TJnited States of America. Born at Dresden in 

 1809, with but little excejition ho continued to 

 reside iu his native city until 1844, when he emi- 

 grated to America ; but, though in both coun- 

 tries he practiced law as a ijrofession, his bent 

 was the study of literary history, which was 

 evidenced by his ' Livre des Ana, Essai de Cata- 

 logue Manuel," published at his own costin 1837, 

 and by his ' Bibliothekonomie, " which appeared 

 a few years later. 



" But even whilst thus euaaged he delighted 

 in investigating the rise and progress of the land 

 of his subsequeut adoption, and his researches 

 into the vexed question of the origin of the peo- 

 pling of America gained him the highest consid- 

 eration, on both sides of the Atlantic, as a man 

 of original and inquiring mind. He was a 

 contributor to Naumaun's 'Serapaiuni;' and 

 .amongst the chief of his contributions to that 

 journal may be mentioned those on ' American 

 Libraries, ' on the 'Aids to American Bibliog- 

 raphy,' and on the 'Book Trade of the United 

 States of America.' In 1846 appeared his ' Lit- 

 erature of American Local History,' a work of 

 much importance and which required no small 

 amount of labor and perseverance, owing to the 

 necessity of consulting the many and widely 



