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Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019 6:00AM ET
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[Americana] Campanius, Thomas Kort Beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uni America som nu fortjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania

Stockholm, 1702. First edition. 4to, 7 ¾ x 5 ¾ in. (186 x 146 mm). (16), (1)-190, [2] pp. Illustrated with an additional folding engraved title-page, two engraved plates and four engraved maps (with the folding map facing b4 recto supplied from another copy), and several woodcut illustrations of maps, plans, and views in text; engraved and letterpress titles loose. Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printers device. Old sheep and tree calf, rubbed and worn, spine gone, front board detached along with endpaper. Dampstaining and repair to map of the Americas; dampstaining to Niagara view, with fore-edge likely repaired; American Indians plate trimmed at fore-edge with small losses to edge of image; dampstaining and repair to several leaves. Sabin 10202; Howes C 84; Church 803, Field 233; Sienert 125. First edition of the first detailed historic account of New Sweden in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. A guide to Indian vocabulary and phraseology is appended.

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