Description
- Notes:
- Dedication signed Cadwallader Colden.
- Printed as part 1 only; parts 1 and 2 first published under title: The history of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are dependent on the province of New York in America, and are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world, London, 1747.
- "A short vocabulary of some words and names used by the French authors, which are not generally understood by the English that understand the French language, and may therefore be useful to those that intend to read the French accounts, or compare them with the accounts now published", p. xi-xiii, printed in parallel columns, gives the names used by the French for the tribes of the Five Nations compared to the names used by the English or the Five Nations tribes, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy including the old Five Nations of New York, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples.
- Signatures: [a] b c² A-P (P4 verso blank)
- Errata: p. [1], 3rd group.
- Bookseller's advertisement: p. [1], 3rd group.
- Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces.
Citation
"The history of the Five Indian Nations depending on the province of New-York in America"
(1727).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:576785/
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