ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



479 



Stevens (H.) — Continued. 



Chancery lane, for Henry Stevens, 4, Trafalgar 

 square, Charing cross, | Loudon, July 4, 1862. 



2 vols.: half-title verso blank 1 1. title verso 

 blank 1 1. " To the diligent biblioscoper " (dated 

 July 4, 1862) pp. v-xii, catalogue pp. 1-436 ; half 

 title verso blank 1 1. title verso blank 1 1. cata- 

 logue pp. 437-805, verso colophon, 16°. 



Copies seen ; Congress, Eames, Pilling. 



The following is a continuation : 



Historical nuggets | [Design] | Bib- 



liotheca Americana or a | descriptive 

 account of our | collection of rare | 

 "books relating [ to America | [Design] 

 I By Henry Stevens GMB FSA | and | 

 Henry Newton Stevens | I will buy 

 with you, sell with you' Shakspeare | 

 [Engraving with the inscription "Bib- 

 liography"] I Second series volume I ] 

 volume III of the whole work j 



London : Henry Stevens & son | 115 

 St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross | & 4 

 Trafalgar Square | 1885 



Cover title : Vol III Part I [-II] Price 2s 6d 

 I [Design! | Stevens's | historical nuggets | or 

 a descriptive account | of our collection of | 

 , books relating to | America | [Ornan^ent] | For 

 Sale at Prices Marked | [Engraving with in- 

 scription " Bibliography"] | 



Henry Stevens & son | American and anti- 

 quarian booksellers | 115 St. Martin's Lane, 

 Charing Cross | London, May [-August] 1885 1 

 (and. at 4 Trafalgar Square) 



2 parts: cover title as above verso notice, 

 prospectus 2 11. half-title verso quotation 1 1. 

 title as above verso quotation 1 1. introduction 

 pp. v-viii, catalogue pp. 1-80, notice on back 

 cover; cover title verso notice, prospectus 2 11. 

 catalogue pp. 81-160, notices on back cover, 16°. 



Copies seen: Eames, Geological Survey. 



The plan of this second series was to fill 

 about eight volumes. Only two numbers, how- 

 ever, have been printed, containing the titles A 

 to Backus. 

 Stockbridge. See Mohegan. 

 Stories : 



Chippewa See Barnard (A.) 



Chippewa Jacker (F.) 



Mississagna Chamberlain (A. F.) 



Strachey (William). The | historic of 

 travaile | into | Virginia Britannia ; | 

 expressing the | cosmographie and 

 comodities of the country, | togither 

 with the manners and | customes of the 

 people. I Gathered and observed as well 

 by those who went | first thither as 

 collected by | William Strachey, gent., 

 I the first secretary of the colony. | 

 Now first edited from the original man- 

 uscript, iu the j British museum, by | 



Strachey ( W.) — Continued. 

 R. H. Major, esq., | of the British mu- 

 seum. I 



London: | printed for the Hakluyt 

 society. I M. DCCC. XLIX [1849] 



Hakluyt title verso blank 1 1. title as above 

 verso printer 1 1. officers of the society verso 

 blank 1 1. editor's preface pp. vii-viii. introduc- 

 tion pp. i-xxxvi, fac-similes of signatures verso 

 blank 1 1. title of the manuscript verso blank 1 

 1. dedication verso quotation I 1. prsemonition 

 pp. 1-22, text pp. 23-180, half-title of dictionarie 

 verso blank l 1. text pp. 181-196, index pp. 197- 

 203, map, five other plates, 8°. 



Song in the language of the Indians of Vir- 

 ginia, pp. 79-80.— A dictionarie of the [Pow- 

 hatan] Indian language, for the better enabling 

 of such who shalbe thither ymployed (about 

 850 words, English and Virginian), pp. 183-196. 



Copies seen: A&tor, Congress, Eames, Shea, 

 Watkinson. 



At the Field sale, no. 2295, a copy brought 

 $4.50; at the Menzies sale, no. 1928, $6; at the 

 Murphy sale, no. 2427, $2.75. Priced by Leclerc, 

 1878, no. lOlo, 35 fr. 



The original manuscript of this work is in 

 the British Museum, "Ayscough 1622," and a 

 transcript is in the Lenox liibrary. The de- 

 scription of the latter copy is as follows : 



The first Booke of the Historic of | Trauaila 

 into Virginia Britania | expressing the Cosmo- 

 graphie & I comodities of the country together 

 1 with the manners and customes | of the peo- 

 ple; gathered &. observed | as well by those 

 who went first thither | as collected by "William 

 Strachey | Gent. 3. yeares thither imployed | 

 Secretarie of State, andof Counsaile | with the 

 right honorable the Lord | La-warre his Maj''«' 

 Lord Governo' | and Capt. Geneiall of the Co- 

 lony. I [Quotation from Psal. 102, ver. 18, three 



lines.] 



Title of the first book as above verso blank 1 

 1. dedication verso quotation 1 I. a Praemoni- 

 tion to the Keader 17 11. text of the. first book 

 173 unnumbered 11. 1 blank 1. title of the second 

 book verso blank 1 1. text 27 unnumbered 11. a 

 Dictionarie 12 11. folio. 



The Indian song is on the 37th and 38th leaves 

 of the first book. The dictionary contains be- 

 tween 80O and 900 words. 



William Strachey, colonist, left England in 

 1609 on the "Sea Venture" with Sir Thomas 

 Gates, and was shipwrecked on the Bermudas, 

 but in 1610 reached Virginia on a boat that had 

 been constructed from the wreck, and was sec- 

 retary of the colony for three yeskva.— Apple- 

 ton's Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



Street (Alfred Billings). The | Indian 

 pass. ( By | Alfred B. Street, | author 

 of " Fugitive poems;" [&c. five lines.] 

 I [Design.] | 



New York | Hurd and Houghton, 

 publishers. | Cambridge : Riverside 

 Press. I 1869. 



