Superstitions, les Costumes, les Armes, les Chasses, la Guerre, la Paix, le Demombrement, l'Origine etc. etc. of de Plusiers Nations Indiennes. Parallele de ces Peuples avec ceux de l'Antiquite [etc. 7 lines], par J. C. Beltrami. 8° NouvelleOrleans, 1824.

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A Pilgrimage in Europe and America leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River; with a Description of the whole course of the former, and of the Ohio. By J. C. Beltrami, Esq. In two volumes. 8° Vol. I. pp. 76 +472. Portrait of the author in his dress when among the Indians. 2 maps. Vol. II. pp. 545 +6, and 3 plates and plan. London, printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1828.

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Vol. II. is almost entirely devoted to the author's travels among the Northwestern Indians, of whom he gives some novel particulars. The narrations of what he witnessed are tinged with the peculiar glow of the author's temperament. Beltrami must have moved in a gigantic world, if he saw external objects through the same media with which he viewed his own person and accomplishments.

This volume is a translation, or perhaps more nearly a paraphrase, of that noticed above.

BENEZET (Anthony).

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Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian Natives of this Continent. 18o pp. 59. Philadelphia, printed and sold by Joseph Cruikshank, 1784. Anthony Benezet, born in 1713, of a French family of St. Quentin, was driven from France by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Having fixed his residence in Philadelphia, he adopted the doctrine of the Quakers. His humanity impelled him to attempt an amelioration of the condition of both the Indians and negroes, by publishing treatises exhibiting the unhappy state to which each had been reduced, by the cupidity and neglect of the whites. He died in 1784.

BENSON (Henry C.).

Life among the Choctaw Indians, and Sketches of the Southwest. By Henry C. Benson, with an Introduction by Rev. T. A. Morris. 12° pp. 314. Cincinnati, 1860.

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This is evidently a veritable relation of personal experience during three years' service as teacher and missionary among the Choctaws; and is the work of a man of sense, who does not fill his pages with the emotional religious exercises of his converts, but narrates the every-day story of incidents and character, grave or ludicrous, which presented themselves. BENSON (Egbert).

Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, 31st December, 1816. By Egbert Benson. pp. 72. New York, 1817.

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First edition of Benson's Memoirs of the Indian, Dutch, and English names of localities in the vicinity of New York.

BENSON (Egbert).

Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, December 31, 1816. By Egbert Benson. Second

Edition with Notes. 12° pp. 127. Jamaica, Henry C. Sleight, Printer, 1825.

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An essay on the Indian and Dutch names of New York, first printed in 1817, by the author. The peculiarly abrupt, and not very perspicuous style of the work, excited the criticisms of the directors of the Society, who required some verbal changes before publication, which the author's pride induced him to reject with indignation. A controversy arose of much acrimony, and Mr. Benson determined to vindicate his style by printing his essay. He does not however seem to have been entirely satisfied with it himself, as several copies exist with numerous manuscript additions and corrections. The second edition printed in Jamaica includes some of these, and is quite difficult to procure. The Society in 1848, after the death of the author, printed the address, in their seventh volume of Collections. Of this a few copies were issued in a separate form bearing on the title "Reprinted from a copy with the Author's last Corrections."

BENTON (Nathaniel S.).

The History of Herkimer County and the Upper Mohawk Valley, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, with a Brief Notice of the Iroquois Indians, the Early German Tribes, the Palatine Immigrations into the Colony of New York, and Biographical Sketches of the Palatine Families, the Patentees of Burnetsfield in the year 1725; also Biographical Notices of the most Prominent Public Men of the County, with Important Statistical Information. 8° pp. 497, maps, etc. Albany,

1856.

BENZONI (Giralamo).

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La Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Di M Giralamo Benzoni Milanese. Laqual tratta dell' isole & Mari nuoua mente ritrouati & delle nuove citta da lui proprio redute, per acqua & per terra in quattordeci anni. Venitia Per anni xx. (Colophon). In Venitia Appresso Francesco Rampazetto, MDLXV. 24° Portrait of the Author. Title and 3 prel. leaves +1 to 175, num

bered leaves.

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This rare book is the work of an old Italian traveller who, incited by the wonderful stories of the world discovered by his countryman fifty years before, adventured in 1541 to gain personal knowledge of it. The Aborigines of the countries he visited always seemed first to attract his attention; and he has accordingly afforded us some of the rarest pictures of their condition and habits at that early day, of which the rude wood-cuts printed in the text are quaint but spirited illustrations. It is the first book of Travels of which America has been so fruitful, as Benzoni seems to have been the first who travelled merely to gratify his curiosity and recorded his observations. BENZONI (Giralamo).

History of the New World, by Giralamo Benzoni of Milan, showing his Travels in America from A. D. 1541 to 1556; with some particulars of the Island of Canary. Now first translated and edited by Rear Admiral W. H. Smyth. 8° pp. iv. + (vi.) + 280. London, printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1857. The narrative of Giralamo Benzoni is one of the most interesting of all the early travellers in America, not only for the minute details of the life and habits of the Aborigines more than three centuries ago, but for the evident fidelity to truth, and the consequent reliance we may feel that we are viewing

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the common life of the natives before what we term civilization had corrupted them. Eighteen fac-similes of the curious wood-cuts of the period are inserted in the text, most of which are illustrative of some phases in the customs of the Indians. They were reproduced by De Bry. Born at Milan in 1519, he abandoned his country to seek for adventures in the New World at the age of twenty-two. After fourteen years of travels he returned in 1556 and published his Historia del Mondo, which has been esteemed a great success, and translated into several languages.

BENZONI (H.).

Novae Novi Orbis Historiae id est Rerum ab Hispanis in India Occidentali hastenus gestarum, & acerbo illorum in eas gentes dominatu, Libri tres, Urbani Calvetonis opera industriasque ex Italicus Hieronymi Benzonis Mediolawensis, qui eas terras xiiii. annorum peregrinatione obyt commentariis descripti Latini facta ac perpetuis notis, argumentis & locu pleti memorabilium rerum acessione illustrati. Hic ab eodem adjuncta est. De Gallorum in Floridam expeditione & insigni Hispanorum in eos faeuitiae-exemplo Brevis Historia Apud Eustathium Vignon, 1578. 12° Title and prel. pp. (xxii.) + 480+ Index, xii. + Errata, 1 leaf.

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[New History of the New World containing a summary of all that the Spaniards have done to the present time in the West Indies, and of the cruel treatment they have given the unfortunate natives. Translated from the Italian of Jerome Benzoni, the Milanois, who travelled in that country fourteen years. Enriched with many observations and facts worthy of being preserved. By Urban Chauveton, together with a short history of a massacre committed by the Spaniards upon some Frenchmen in Florida. With an Index of the most remarkable events.]

This is the first Latin edition of Benzoni, and is chiefly valuable for the addition by Chauveton of the narration of Laudonierre, which is found commencing at page 427, with the title in Latin, "Brief History of the Expedition of the French to Florida, and of the Massacre so barbarously executed upon them by the Spaniards in 1565." Charlevoix supposes this portion of the work to have been taken from that of La Challeux, printed in 1556. In the next year the first French translation of Benzoni was printed, to which this account of the Massacre was also added.

It was this translation of Benzoni's work which was printed by De Bry as Parts IV., V., and VI. of his Great Voyages, with 78 plates.

BERENDT (C. Hermann).

Analytical Alphabet for the Mexican and Central American Languages, by C. Hermann Berendt, M. D.; published by the American Ethnological Society. 8° pp. 68. New York. Reproduced in fac-simile, by the American Photo-Lithographic Company, 1869.

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The gentleman whose name is attached to this ingenious analysis of the elementary sounds of the Maya and other dialects, has devoted twelve years of his life to their study, most of which time he has resided in Yucatan. His zeal is only equaled by his scholarship; and to the ethnological results of his grammatical comparison of the eighteen dialects of which he is preparing a Dictionary and Grammar, many scholars in this country and in Europe are directing the most profound regard.

BERTONIO (L.).

Libro de la Vida y | Milagros de Nvestro Senor | Jesu Christo en dos Lenguas Aymara y Romance | traducido de el que re

copilo el Licenciado Alon | so de Villegas quitadas y anadidas algunas cosas y acomodado alo capacidad de los Indios | Por el Padre Lucovico Bertonio Ita | liano de la Compania de Jesus en la Provincia de el Piru natural | de Rocca Contrado de la Marca de Ancona. Dedicado al illustrissimo y reverendissimo Senor don Alonso de Peralta primer Arcobispo de los Charcas. Impresso en la Casa de la Compania de Jesus de Iuli Pueblo en la Provincia de Chucuyto por Francisco del Canto 1612. Esta tassado este libro a Real cada pliego en papal. 4° Title, 1 leaf. Erratas, 1 leaf. Approbacion and Licencia, 1 leaf. 2d Approbacion, 1 leaf. 2d Licencia with Approbacion, 2 leaves. Dedicatoria, 2 leaves. Total prelim. leaves 8+pp. 560, numbered erroneously 660 pp. + tabla viii.

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[Book of the Life and Miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ, in two languages, Aymara and Spanish, translated from the compilation of the Licentiate Alonso de Villegas, together with some other things adapted to the comprehension of the Indians, by the Father Ludovico Bertonio. Printed at the House of the Society of Jesus, in the Village of Juli, Province of Chuquitos (Peru), 1612.]

Father Bertonio entered the Society in 1575, and passed his life in Peru as a missionary to the Indians. He died at Lima in 1628 at the age of seventy-three

years.

The other works of Bertonio in the Indian languages are: Arte de la Lengua Aymara, Rome, 1603, 80, and 1608; Arte de la Lengua Aymara, Juli, 1612, 8°, and 1614; Confessionario de los Lenguas Aymara y Romance, 1612, 8°; Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, Juli, 1612, 4°; also, a MS. Historia de los Quatro Evangelos en Aymara. Other works of Bertonio are known to have been printed, but we have lost even the titles. All of these works are excessively rare, and considered very valuable for the history of typography in Peru.

Ferdinand del Canto was a celebrated printer of Peru, who was also the director of the press of the Jesuits at Juli.

(BEVERLY) (Robert).

History of Virginia in Four Parts. 1st. The History of the First Settlement of Virginia, and the Government thereof, to the year 1706. 2d. The Natural Productions and Conveniences of the Country, suited to Trade and Improvement. 3d. The Native Indians, their Religion, Laws and Customs, in War and Peace. 4th. The Present State of the Country, etc. By a Native and Inhabitant of the Place. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged by the Author. 8° Engraved title, title and 5 prel. leaves +pp. 104+40+64 +83+16 and 4 unnumbered pp. London, 1722.

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The work appeared anonymously in two English and one French edition, but is known to have been written by Robert Beverly. The plates are reduced copies of those in Harriott's Virginia, drawn and engraved by the brothers De Bry.

BEYARD (Col. Nicholas).

Journal of the Late Actions of the French at Canada, by Col. Nicholas Beyard and Lieut. Col. Charles Lodowick. New York: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin, 1868.

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The title-page of the first edition of 1693 announces the other subjects of the

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book, which are: I. Account of two Dutch Men Prisoners in Canada. Examination of a French Prisoner. III. Governor Fletcher's Speech to the Indians, The Reply of the Chiefs of the Five Nations, and The Proposals of four Chiefs to Gov. Fletcher.

BIBAUD (F. M. Maximillien).

Biographie des Sagamos Illustres de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Precede d' un Index de l'Historique fabuleuse de ce Continent. Par F. M. Maximillien Bibaud. 8° pp. 309. Montreal de l'Imprimerie de Lovell et Gibson rue St. Nicolas, 1848.

124 [Biography of Illustrious Indian Chiefs of North America, preceded by an Index of the Mythical History of that Continent. By F. M. Maximilian Bibaud.]

This work attempts something more than biographical sketches of famous Indians, as it gives a resume of discovery, and wars with the natives, as a frame in which to hang his portraits of them. It is a very good compilation of the quite well known facts of aboriginal history, and, although containing little that is not already stored in the common stock of knowledge, it does not include much, if anything, of his own composition which is fallacious or speculative.

BIBLE BOY

Taken Captive by the Indians. Written for the American Sunday-School Union, and revised by the Committee of Publication. 18° pp. 35. Philadelphia, n. d.

BICKLEY (George W. L.).

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History of the Settlement and Indian Wars of Tazewell County, Virginia. 8° Cincinnati, 1852.

BIERCE (Gen. L. V.).

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Historical Reminiscences of Summit County (Ohio). By Gen. L. V. Bierce. Square 12° pp. 157. Akron, Ohio, T. & H. C. Canfield, publishers, 1854.

Many new incidents of Indian life and warfare are recorded in this little volume.

BIET (Antoine).

Voyage de la France Equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne, entrepris par les Francois en l'annee M.DC.LII. Divise en trois Livres. Le Premier, contient l'etablissement de la Colonie, son embarquement, & sa route iusques a son arrivee en l'isle de Cayenne. Le Second, ce qui s'est passe pendant quinze mois que l'on a demeure dans le pais. Le Troiseme traitte du temperament du pais, de la fertilite de la terre & des Moeurs, & facons de faire des Sauvages de cette contree. Avec un Dictionaire de la Langue du mesme Pays. Par Me. Antoine Biet, Prestre, etc. A Paris, 1664. 4° prel. pp. (24) + 432. 127

[Voyage to France Equinoxial, in the island of Cayenne; undertaken by the French in 1652. Divided into three Books. The First containing the establishment of the Colony, etc. The Second, a narrative of what took place during five months, etc. The Third, treating of the climate and fertility of the country, and of the manners and habits of life of the savages of the country. With a dictionary of the language.]

That portion of the third part treating of the savages and the language occu pies pp. 339 to 432, the last ninety-three pages of the work.