Untersuchungen über Amerika's Bevölkerung aus dem alten Kontinente
Subtitle: dem Herrn Kammerherrn Alexander von Humboldt gewidmet
By: von Johann Severin Vater Professor und Bibliothekar
Publisher: bei Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger; mul
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Origin; Eskimo languages; Comparative linguistics; Indians; Central American languages; Indian linguistics; Mexican languages; Languages; Indian linguisics; South American languages; Antiquities; North American languages
Other titles: Dem Herrn Kammerherrn Alexander von Humboldt.
Notes: Colophon reads: Halle: gedruckt bei Johann Jacob Gebauer.

Signatures: pi⁶ (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-N⁸ (A1 verso blank) O²

Errata: p. [1], 3rd count.

Includes comparative vocabularies of various Indian, Eurasian and European languages.

Page 23 includes a short comparative vocabulary of Algonquian and Irish Gaelic words.

Pages 47-55 include various words, linguistically compared, in the languages of Greenland, Poconchi, Carib, Tuscarora, Nahuatl, Ojibwa, Algonquian, Onondaga, Narragansett, Penobscot, Delaware, Acadian, Seneca, Brazilian, Chikasaw, Choctaw, and assorted Eurasian languages.

Page 145 includes a comparative vocabulary of Greek, Latin, and the language as it is spoken in Chile.

Pages 155-174 include various words, linguistically compared, in the languages of Quechua, Cora, Ojibwa, Awawak, Greenland, Tarasca, Nahuatl, Galibi, Aymara, Eskimo languages, Miami, Abipon, Wyandot, Pocochi, and various other European and African languages.

Pages 195-203 include words, linguistically compared, in the languages of Poconchi, Galibi, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, Ojibwa, Patagonia, Tarasca, Nahuatl, Carib, Greeland, Brazil, Kiriri, Delaware, Mixtec, Arawak, Abipon, Cora, Miami, Algonquian, Nootka, Wyandot, Tuscarora and various other languages.

Sabin 33748.

Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the library of Thomas Jefferson, 443.

Pilling, J.C. North American languages, 3982.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased with the assistance of the Harper Fund.