Dictionary
The American Peerless Dictionary from The American garden.
Lexicon Technicum
Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves... The second edition. (2 volumes).
by John Harris, John.
London: Printed for Dan. Brown, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, et al., 1708-1710.
A Samoan Dictionary
The Reverend George Pratt, a missionary, lived in Samoa from 1839 to 1879 and was the first person to document the Samoan language. This book is the first edition of his classic dictionary printed in Samoa itself on the Missionary Society's press. This particular copy was owned by Otis T. Mason, curator of ethnology at NMNH from 1884 to 1908. It is the only copy in Washington D.C. and only 12 other copies are known in all of the U.S.
