V. 



Vail (Eugene A.) Notice | sur | lea In- 

 diens | de FAm^rique du nord, | orn^e 

 de qiiatre portraits colori^s, dessin^s 

 d'apr^s j nature, et d'une carte, | par | 

 Eugene A. Vail, | Citoyen des Stats- 

 Unis d'Am^rique, membre de plusieiirs 

 80ci6t^8 savantes. | 



Paris, I Arthns Bertrand, ^diteur, | 

 libraire de la soci^t^ de g^ograpliie et 

 de la soci^te royale des antiquaires du 

 nord, I rue Hautefeuille, 23. | 1840. 



Printed cover (differing slightly in arrange- 

 ment from the above), half-title verso quotation 

 1 1. portrait 1 1. title as above verso printers 1 

 1. notions g6n6rales pp. 5-13, text pp. 15-244, 

 tables des matieres pp. 245-246, map and three 

 other portraits, 8°. 



Des langues indiennes, pp. 40-58, contains a 

 few examples in the Delaware language (pp. 45- 

 46) ; a few words in Chippeway, Ottawa, Algon- 

 quin, Dalaware, Illinois, and Micmac (pp. 54, 

 56) ; quelques temps de la conjugaison du verbe 

 ahoalan, aimer, en Delaware (p. 55) ; verbe etre 

 sage, en Massachusetts (p. 55). 



Copies seen: Astor, Boston Athenfeum, Brit- 

 ish Museum, Congress, Eames, Harvard, Shea, 

 "Watkinson. 



At the Fischer sale Quaritch bought a copy, 

 no. 1702, for Is. ; anothpr copy, no. 2871, sold for 

 7s. Qd. ; at the Field sale, no. 2416, it brought 

 $1.25; at the Squier sale, no. 1456, $1.62; at the 

 Brinley sale, no. 5469, $2.50; at the Pinart sale, 

 no. 916, 1 fr. 50 c. Priced by Quaritch, no. 30031, 



68. 



Vallancey (Charles), editor. Collectanea 

 I de I Rebus Hibernicis. | [Vol. I-V.] | 

 Published from | original manuscripts, 

 I by ! Lieut. Col. Charles Vallancey, | 

 Soc. Antiq. Hib. Soc. | 



Dublin : | Printed by R. Marchbank, 

 Castle-street, | printer to the Antiqua- 

 rian Society. | [M, DCC, LXXIV - M. 

 DCC,XC (1774-1790).] 



5 vols. vols. 3 and 4 having 2 parts each, 8°. 

 Title from vol. 2, the copy of vol. 1 seen having 

 no general title. The earlier date is taken from 

 the title-page of article no. i of vol. 1. 



Table iii, names of numbers of some of the 

 Indians of America, contains numerals 1-1000 of 

 a number of American languages, among them 

 the Shawanese and Delawares, vol. 3, p. 577. 



Copies seen : Congress. 



Van Fleet (J. A.) Old and new Macki- 

 nac; I with I copious extracts ( from | 

 Marquette, Hennepin, La Houtan Isic]^ 

 Cadillac, Alexander Henry, and others. 

 1 [Poem, sixteen lines.] | By rev. J. A. 

 Van Fleet, M. A. | 



Ann Arbor, Mich. : | Courier steam 

 printing-house, 41 & 43 north Main 

 street. | L870. 



Map 1 1. title verso copyright 1 1. preface pp. 

 iii-iv, text pp. 5-176, 8°. 



Ojibwalove song, with English translation, 

 pp. 143-144. 



Copies seen : Eames. 



Van Tassel (Isaac). [Elementary book, 

 with a few hymns and reading lessons, 

 in the Ottawa language. ] ( * ) 



28 pp. "More than a year ago, Mr. Van 

 Tassel [a missionary of the American Board, 

 stationed at Maumee, Ohio] published a small 

 elementary book of 28 pages, containing also a 

 few hymns and scripture reading lessoas. 500 

 copies were printed. "—Ann. Rep. A. B.C. F. M., 

 1832. 



"The first book printed in this language [i. e. 

 Ottawa] contained the Lord's Prayer and the 

 Ten Commandments, with a few hymns, trans- 

 lated by Mr. and Mrs. Van Tassel, of the Amer- 

 ican Board of Missions ; it was printed, with 

 some spelling-lessons, at Hudson, Ohio, in 

 1S29."— Bag ster's Bible of Every Land (1860), p. 

 453. 



Vassal (H.) List of Names of Certain 

 Places in the Abenakis Language. 



In Canada, Annual Eeport of the Dept. of 

 Indian Affairs, 1884, pt. 1, pp. 27-29, Ottawa, 1885, 

 8°. (Eames, Geological Survey, Pilling. ) 



Mr. Vassal, who was Indian agent at St. 

 Francis Agency, Pierreville, Canada, had the 

 assistance in the compilation of this list (which 

 is alphabetically arranged and includes about 

 forty names, many of them with literal mean- 

 ings) of Messrs. Lazarre Wasanminett, Joseph 

 Laurent, and Henry Masta. 



There follows a similar list in Montagnais by 

 Arnaud (C), q.v. 

 Vater {Dr. Johann Severin). Untersu- 

 chungen | iiber | Amerika's Bevolkerung 

 I aus dem | alten Kontineute | dem ! 

 Herrn Kammerherrn | Alexander von 

 Humboldt | gewidmet ] von | Johann 



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