The history of the American Indians
Subtitle: particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. : With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions -- the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians -- and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country. : With a new map of the country referred to in the history
By: By James Adair, esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years
Publisher: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry
Published: 1775
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Origin; Creek language; Chickasaw language; Indians of North America; Indians; Indian linguistics; Choctaw language; Cherokee language
Notes: Signatures: pi² A-3N⁴

Page 101 misnumbered 102.

"Contains terms in Cheerokee, Choktah, Chikkasah, and Muskohge"; cf. Pilling.

Brown, J.C.  Lib. cat., 1493-1800, III: 2013.

Sabin 155.

Vail, R.W.G.  The voice of the old frontier, 643.

Field, T.W.  Indian bib., 11.

Pilling, J.C.  Proof-sheets of a bib. of the languages of the North Amer. Indians., 18.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 is half-bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards and is untrimmed and partially unopened.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 is 28 cm.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 was purchased from Michael Zinman.