Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Pages 775-774 are numbered in columns with odd numbers printed on left hand side of page and even numbers printed on right hand side of page; signatures are counted not in leaves but in pages with odd numbers on rectos and even numbers on versos.

Issued as the seventeenth "continuation", of the author's: Der ausführlichen Nachrichten von der königlich-gross-britannischen Colonie salzburgischer Emigranten in America, which was printed in 18 parts (or "continuations" as they are called on the title pages) in Halle an der Saale and Augsburg from 1741 [i.e. 1738]-1752.

"Der ausführlichen Nachrichten von der königlich-gross-britannischen Colonie salzburgischer Emigranten in America" by Samuel Urlsperger was printed in three volumes, each with continuous pagination and signatures. The first volume has a collective title page dated 1741 and consists of the first through fifth continuations; the second volume has a collective title page dated 1746 and consists of the sixth through twelfth continuations; the third volume has a collective title page dated 1752 and consists of the thirteenth through eighteenth continuations.

Signatures: )(⁴ (-)(4) ()(1 verso blank) a² (-a2) b-d⁴ e² 3Z-5B⁴ 5C-5F² (5C2, 5D2, and 5E2 missigned 5C3, 5D3, and 5E3) (5F2 verso blank)

Head and tail pieces, initials.

Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 399-400.

De Renne, W.J. Cat. of the Georgia Lib., I:57-68.

De Renne, W.J. Cat. of the Georgia Lib., I:66-67 (Siebenzehente Continuation)

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:541.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 741/234.