"Zum Beschluss Folget des Eigen-Herrns und Ober-Haupts dieser Provintz selbst concepirte, und an seine-Freunde übersandte Beschreibung, deren Umstände notabel zu lesen 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 language or languages. The Indian tribes who were living in Pennsylvania were the Lenape, Iroquois, Shawnee, Erie, Munsee, Susquehannock, and the Nanticoke

Signatures: )( A-H (A1, H5 versos blank) I

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials

Palmer, P.M. German works on America

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America

Baer, E. Seventeenth century Maryland

Vail, R.W.G. Old frontier

Alden, J.E. European Americana

JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700

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