A / Dictionary / Of The / Chinook Jargon / Or / Trade Language Of Oregon // Shea's Library Of American Linguistics / XII

Gibbs, George

Published by Cramoisy Press; NY; 43 pp.; Wraps; Good; nc/1863, 1863

____Pilling.Salishan=p.25 _____"The fur-traders of the eighteenth century . in coasting along the shores of Vancouver's and Nootka Sounds, carried with them some of the words of each of the tribes whom they visited; until at the mouth of the Columbia they found a quick-witted._____people who adopted the mongrel jargon they heard from the lips of the strangers, and blended the fragments of twelve native tongue, with some English and French terms, into a sort of language possessing nearly five hundred words._____ Mr. Gibbs, with the zeal of a philological apostle, undertook to resolve this wretched jargon into its original elements, and this is the result of his labors." --Field 602. _____ Folio sheets, printed with octavo sized pages, leading to massive margins on all four sides._____ Thread bound in the original, unprinted paper covers as from the printers._____ . _____ Pilling suggests that only 25 copies were issued in this large paper format. _____ The binding thread has failed, freeing all the page signatures and both covers._____ The rear cover has multiple creases and is edge chipped._____. Seller Inventory # MH-45113

Bibliographic Details

Title: A / Dictionary / Of The / Chinook Jargon / ...
Publisher: Cramoisy Press; NY; 43 pp.; Wraps; Good; nc/1863
Publication Date: 1863
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition