Recherches sur les antiquités de l'Amérique septentrionale
By: par D.B. Warden, membre correspondant de l'Académie des sciences de l'Institut royal, etc., etc. (Ouvrage extrait du 2e volume des Mémoires de ladite société.)
Contributors: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. former owner; Adams, Thomas Randolph, 1921-2008. former owner; Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951. former owner; Harzoff, Max. former owner
Publisher: Everat, imprimeur-libraire, rue du Cadran, no 16
Published: 1827
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Indians of North America; Antiquities; Indians of Mexico; Nanticoke language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Siouan languages; Miami language (Ind. and Okla.); Cherokee language; Narragansett language; Delaware language; Seneca language; Tuscarora language; Indian linguistics
Notes: Colophon reads: Éverat, imprimeur de la Société de géographe, rue de Cadran, no 16, à Paris.

"Prétendue affinité des langues indiennes avec celles de divers peuples", p. 121-121, has a small section of vocabulary in the Pampticogh (North Carolina), Sankikani, Nanticokes (Maryland), Sioux (Great Plains), Miami (Midwest and Oklahoma), Cherokee (North Carolina and Oklahoma), Narragansett (New England), Piankashaws (part of the Miami tribe, Ohio and Indiana), Kotttowis (Siberia), the Ainu of the Kuril Islands, Delaware (middle Atlantic states), Seneca (New York state and Ontario), and Tuscarora (New York state and Ontario) languages.

"Explication des planches relatives aux recherches sur les antiquités des États-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale": p. 131-140.

"Note sur la collection de M. Latour-Allard", p. 141-144, includes "Copie d'une lettre adressée à M. Latour-Allard, par M. de baron de Humboldt" on p. 143-144.

Signatures: 1-18⁴ (1₁ verso blank)

Plates, bound following p. 144, are numbered VII-XVIII.

Engraved printer's device on title page.

Sabin 101365.