PETITOT, Le R. P. E. Vocabulaire Francais-Esquimau: Dialect des Tchiglit

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PETITOT, Le R. P. E. Vocabulaire Francais-Esquimau: Dialect des Tchiglit des bouches du MacKenzie et de l’Anderson precede d’une monographie de cette tribu et de notes grammaticales. Bibliotheque de Linguistique et d’Ethnographie Americaines, Volume III. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1876 Wrpps, 4to. lxiv,78pp. 5 illustrations in the text. Only 350 copies were printed, this being one of 150 copies on ordinary paper. An most important contribution to Eskimo philology with the bookplate of the linguist P. A. Lanyon-Orgill. Old sellotaped repair to spine else a fine uncut copy of the first edition.