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Issued as the first part of the author's: Der ausführlichen Nachrichten von der königlich-gross-britannischen Colonie salzburgischer Emigranten in America, which was printed in 18 further parts (or "continuations" as they are called on the title pages) in Halle an der Saale and Augusburg from 1741 [i.e. 1738]-1752.
Signatures: a⁴ (A1 verso blank) b⁴ (-b4) A-X⁴ Y⁴ (Y3 + chi1) Z-2G⁴ 2H² (-2H2)
Title page printed in red and black; head and tail peices, initials.
Includes a folded, engraved frontispiece of Tomo Chachi Mico, king of the Yamacran and Tooanahowi tribes, with his son and "A map of the country of Savannah", which is followed by a sheet [p. [1-2]], 3rd count, describing the map bound between p. 174 and 175, 2nd and 4th counts.
Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 399.
De Renne, W.J. Cat. of the Georgia Lib., I:59.
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:541.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 735/232.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 3 with: Der ausführlichen Nachrichten von der königlich-gross-britannischen Colonie salzburgischer Emigranten in America, Erste Continuation, Halle an der Saale, 1741 [i.e. 1738], and Der ausführlichen Nachrichten von der königlich-gross-britannischen Colonie salzburgischer Emigranten in America, Zweyte Continuation, Halle an der Saale, 1741 [i.e. 1739]
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf with recovered boards.
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