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Umständige geographische Beschreibung der zu allerletzt erfundenen Provintz Pensylvaniae: in denen End-Gräntzen Americae in der West-Welt gelegen
1704, Zufinden bey Andreas Otto
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Virgules replaces by commas in title page transcription.
Edited by Melchior Adam Pastorius.
First printed Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1700.
"Zum Beschluss Folget des Eigen-Herrns und Ober-Haupts dieser Provintz selbst concepirte, und an seine Freunde übersandte Beschreibung, deren Umstände notabel zu lessen sind", p. [121]-140, has divisional title page and is a slightly condensed reprint of: Beschreibung der in America neu-erfundenen Provinz Pensylvanien / by William Penn, first printed in Hamburg, 1684, the original texts of which were first printed under titles: A letter from William Penn poprietary [sic] and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders, London, 1683, and An abstract of a letter from Thomas Paskell, London, 1683.
Pages 80-81 contain various specimens of an unidentified Indian laguage or languages. The Indian tribes who were living in Pennsylvania were the Lenape, Iroquois, Shawnee, Erie, Munsee, Susquehannock, and the Nanticoke.
Signatures: )( A-H (H5 verso blank) I
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 370.
Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 230.
Meynen, E. Pennsylvanien-Deutschen, 228.
Meynen, E. Pennsylvanien-Deutschen, 237.
Vail, R.W.G. Old frontier, 296.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 704/119.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 2nd item of 3 with: Andreae Hojern Kurtzgefasste Dännemärckische Geschichte vom Anfang dieses mächtigen Reichs bis zum Ausgang des XVII. Seculi / by Andreas Hojer, Erfurt, 1719, and Eigentliche Beschreibung der an der Spitze der Ost-See neuerbaueten russischen Resident-Stadt St. Petersburg, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1718.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary stiff vellum.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of the JCB Associates.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: S. Keppel: autograph on recto of front flyleaf; P.C.P. binding stamp on front board.
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