Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Issued as a continuation of Gröste Denkwürdigkeiten der Welt / by Eberhard Werner Happel, printed in 5 volues in Hamburg, 1683-1691.

Probably published under this title from 1705 onwards.

Authorship has been attributed to Barthold Feind.

This work appeared in weekly fascicles and here has undated numbers I-LV, collected here with a collective title page and continuous paging and register.

Volume designation "Tomus III" is given on title page, but is is unclear as to whether volumes 1 and 2 were ever published. Alden lists only volume 3 incorrectly under Eberhard Werner Happel.

Includes several articles of American content: issue I includes "Des Herrn Baron de la Hontan's Nord-Indien. Erster Brief", p. 7-8; issue II includes "Herrn Barons de la Hontan Beschreibung von Nord-Indien, Zweyter Brief", p. 15-160; and issue XVI includes "Abreise des Herrn Baron de la Hontan von Niagara in Canada", p. 123-126; other serializations of Lahontan's Neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, translated by M. Vischer, and printed Hamburg, 1709, which is an abridgment of his Nouveaux voyages, first printed, The Hague, 1703, are included. Also contains numerous articles about New France and Newfoundland throughout the issues.

Includes several articles relating to the language of indigenous peoples of America: issue IV includes "Curieuse Winter-Fuhren in Canada sammt kurtzen Bericht von der Alkongischen Sprache", a discussion of the Algonquin language on p. 30-31; issue XLIV includes "Lista der Wilden Nationen in Canada, mit ihren üblichen Sprachen", a contemporary classification of Indian nations and languages in the regions of Acadia, the St. Lawrence River to Montreal, Lake Huron, Lake Illinois, and Lake Frontenac on p. 349-350, and "Lista der Thiere in den Südlichen Landern von Canada" on p. 350; issue LIII includes a brief discussion in German of the Huron [Wyandot] and Algonquin languages and makes passing reference to "verschiedene andere wilde Nationen" including the Iroquois, Andastoguerons, Torontogueronons, and Errieronons as well as those in Acadia and Mississippi regions on p. 421-424, "Anhang eines Wörter-Buchs von der Wilden Sprache", a glossary of Algonquin words translated into German, which closely parallels Indian language material in Lahontan, Nouveaux voyages, The Hague, 1703 on p. 423-424, and "Üblichste Wörter der Wilden Sprachen" with a short glossary of words presumably in the Algonquin language on p. 424; issue LIV has "Verfolg der üblichsten Wörter von der Wilden Sprachen" is a glossary of containing over 300 Algonquin entries with German equivalents [Algonquin-German list reproduces word order of Lahontan 1703, alphabetized by French terms] on p. 425-430, "Der Algonkins Art zu zehlen" which is a sample paradigm for present, imperfect, perfect, future, and imperative verb forms and brief notes on noun declensions on p. 430-431, and "Etliche huronsche Wörter", a glossary of 50 terms in Huron [Wyandot] with German equivalents on p. 431-432.

Signatures: pi1 A-3K 3L (-3L4)

Includes index.

Woodcut printer's vignette of angel including motto "Sans passions"; initials.

Cf. Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 333.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 709/72.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Bibliotheca Dvcalis Gothana: bookstamp on verso of title page.