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<dl><dd>Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription</dd>
<dd>An account of the earliest Swedish settlement in America compiled from manuscripts left by the author's grandfather and by Peter Lindstrom, an engineer and cartographer in the colony, and from oral sources</dd>
<dd>Book IV, p. [153]-172, is a "En orde-och samtals-bok, på de-Americaners språk wid Nya Swerige, eller som det nu kallas Pensylvania", and includes glossaries of words and phrases relating to religion, parts of the body, clothing, weather, animals and plants, numbers, and useful conversational phrases in the Delaware language. Also contains "Om en sammankomst och herredag som de barbarer åhr 1645. has=fiva hållit öfwer the Swenksa i Nya Swerige, hwar uti deras sackheman eller konung först talar med fin son, om menighetens tilhopa kallande" on p. 173-179</dd>
<dd>Addenda, p. [180]-190, includes "Om de Myncqueser eller Mynckussar och theras språk" on p. [180]-174 [i.e. 184] and gives a sizeable vocabulary of words and phrases and numerals in the Iroquois language</dd>
<dd>"Om någre mårkwårdige och fållsamme ting uti America": p. 185-190</dd>
<dd>Signatures: pi1 a-b A-2A (2A4 verso blank)</dd>
<dd>Errors in paging: p. 183-184 misnumbered 173-174</dd>
<dd>Title printed in red and black; woodcut vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials</dd>
<dd>Added engraved title page reads: Novae Sveciae seu Pensylvaniae in America descriptio</dd>
<dd>Errata: p. [1], 3rd count</dd>
<dd>Church, E.D. Discovery</dd>
<dd>Larson, Esther E. Swedish commentators on America</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy wanting 2 leaves of plates as recorded in the Library of Congress copy</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Susquehanna Indians; Delaware Indians; Indians of North America; Swedes; Delaware language; Iroquois language; Iroquois language; Indian linguistics; Indian linguistics; Imprint 1702</div>
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Holm, Thomas Campanius, ca. 1670-1702</div>
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