A Vocabulary Or Collection Of Words And Phrases Which Have Been Supposed To Be Peculiar To The
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Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. First complete and best edition of the first work on Americanisms, 8vo, pp. 2 , 9 -206, 1 ; original blue paper-covered boards, rebacked with new paper label on spine; very good copy. Pickering wrote a number of philological pieces for the periodical press, as well as an important Greek lexicon, and he was the leading authority of his time on the languages of the North American Indian. This vocabulary of the American
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