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Algemeine Geschichte der Länder und Völker von America : nebst einer Vorrede Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens ; mit vielen Kupfern
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- Halle : Bey J. J. Gebauer, 1752-1753
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- 2 volumes : illustrations, plates (part folded), maps (part folded) ; 26 cm
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- ocm04238079
- Dedication signed: "J. F. S."
- Includes index.
- The first part, comprising most of v. 1, is a translation of J. F. Lafitau's "Moeurs des sauvages americains comparées aux moeurs des premiers tems", Paris, 1723. Part 2 is compiled from various sources, and includes "Das chronologische verzeichnis der entdeckungen der Newen welt", translated from Charlevoix's "Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France, 1745" (i. e. 1744) cf. Vorrede.
- Baumgarten's "Vorrede" contains a bibliography of the New world.