First printed in serialized form as part of "A new collection of voyages and travels", compiled by John Stevens from 1708-1710, and printed in cumulation in London, 1711

"A small dictionary of every tongue ...", p. 225-230, contains numbers, general vocabulary and phrases in the English, Tuskeruro [i.e. Tuscarora, a language in the Iroquois family spoken by a tribe in New York State and Ontario], Pamticough [a language spoken by the Pamlico Indians, who lived in Virginia], and Woccon languages [as spoken by a Siouan tribe near Piedmont, North Carolina]

Signatures: A (-A4) B-H (G1 missigned F1) I² K-2L (2L4 verso blank)

Bookseller's advertisement: p. [1], 3rd count

Title printed within double rule border; woodcut initials

Cf. Hanson, 1057

Cf. Vail, R.W.G. Old Frontier, 311

Cf. Church, E.D. Discovery, 928n

Cf. Pilling, J.C. Proof-sheets of a bib. of the languages of the North Amer. Indians, 2223

Cf. Alden, J.E. European Americana, 709/91

Cf. Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:138

ESTC

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf

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