Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania Novae Sveciae seu Pensylvaniae in America descriptio Holm, Thomas Campanius ca. 1670-1702 text sw Stockholm tryckt uti Kongl. boktr. hos Sal. Wankijfs änkia, med egen bekostnad, af J. H. Werner Ahr MDCCII. [1702] 1702 monographic swe lat del iro print [18], 190, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., maps ; 20 cm. (4to) Af lärde och trowärdige mäns skrifter och berättelser ihopaletad och sammanskrefwen, samt med åth skillige figurer utzirad af Thomas Campanius Holm. Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription. 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. 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. 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. "Om någre mårkwårdige och fållsamme ting uti America": p. 185-190. Signatures: pi1 a-b A-2A (2A4 verso blank) Errors in paging: p. 183-184 misnumbered 173-174. Title printed in red and black; woodcut vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials. Added engraved title page reads: Novae Sveciae seu Pensylvaniae in America descriptio. Errata: p. [1], 3rd count. n-us-de Susquehanna Indians Delaware Indians Indians of North America Middle Atlantic States Swedes Delaware Delaware language Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Iroquois language Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Iroquois language Texts Indian linguistics Delaware language Indian linguistics Iroquois language Delaware History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Imprint 1702. Sweden Stockholm Church, E.D. Discovery, 803 Larson, Esther E. Swedish commentators on America, 145 Alden, J.E. European Americana, 702/108 Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:21 04033618 720042831 aacr dcrm DLC 110504 20111213133844.0 ocn720042831 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.106 2014/12/19) kortbeskrifningo00holm