Original Gibbs CJ dictionary for sale

[Tom Larsen]

Gibbs' Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon was published simultaneously by
the Smithsonian and by Cramoisy Press in 1863.

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Tom Larsen

Database Management and Catalog Librarian
Branford Price Millar Library
Portland State University
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email: larsent at pdx.edu



hzenk at pdx.edu wrote:

>Now is this Gibbs's CJ dictionary, and not his "Alphabetical vocabulary of the
>Chinook language" (=his Chinookan word-list)?  Reason I ask is that as I
>remember it, the former was put out by the Smithsonian, the latter by Cramoisy
>Press.  Both in 1863 if memory serves.  In any case I have xeroxes, which
>serve the purpose (I'm not a collector).  Henry
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>Quoting "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>:
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>>For whomever may have this kind of money, Wessel and Lieberman
>>(www.wlbooks.com) is offering the following:
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>>Description: New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863. First Edition. Tall thin
>>quarto. Pp. xiv, [2], 43, [1]. Original pale green wrappers, stained &
>>chipped; bottom third and head of spine worn away. Unopened, but several
>>lower page corners folded over, some old dampstaining evident. A Fair copy
>>only. With half-title for Shea's Library of American Linguistics, XII.
>>PILLIING, Chinookan Languages p33. "In 1848 Mr. Gibbs went overland from
>>St. Louis to Oregon and established himself at Columbia." He worked in
>>various capacities, including collector, geologist, botanist, and
>>commissioner, under Archibald Campbell, to the northwest boundary
>>survey. "He was also engaged in the arrangement of a large mass of
>>manuscript bearing upon the ethnology and philology of the American
>>Indian." Item # 22239 $250.00
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>>Best wishes,
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>>--Dave
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