Neue Erdbeschreibung von ganz Amerika. / Aus dem Englischen. Herausgegeben von August Ludwig Schlözer, ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenning, Daniel 639

Contributor:

Collyer, Joseph, -1776

Schlözer, August Ludwig von, 1735-1809

Standardized Title:

New system of geography. Book 4 and Appendix. German

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

America--Description and travel--67418.

America.

Oceania--Description and travel--77244.

Oceania.

Catalogs, Booksellers'--Germany--1777.

Catalogs, Booksellers'.

Local Subjects:

Catalogs, Booksellers'--Germany--1777.

Physical Description:

2 v. (v. 1: [22], 512 p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], [515]-1038, [26] p., [2] folded leaves of plates) : ill., maps ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Other Title:

Geographie von Amerika.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen und Leipzig, : in der Weygandschen Buchhandlung., 1777.

Contents:

Erster Theil. Vom brittischen Amerika (v. 1).

Zweyter Theil. Vom französischen Amerika (v. 2: p. [515]-561).

Dritter Theil. Vom holländischen Amerika (v. 2: p. 562-575).

Vierter Theil. Vom dänischen Amerika (v. 2: p. 576-582).

Fünfter Theil. Vom portugiesischen Amerika (v. 2: p. [583]-624).

Sechster Theil. Vom spanischen Amerika (v. 2: p. [625]-957. 2 plates).

Anhang. Von Süd-Indien oder dem fünften Welttheile (v. 2: p. 958-1038). Text headings are from half titles.

Notes:

Authorship stated in Vorrede (p. [5] at front).

Translation, chiefly by Gottlieb Christian Heinrich List and Wilhelm Johann Konrad Hennemann, of Book IV (America) and the appendix (islands of the South Pacific Ocean) of: Fenning Daniel and Collyer, Joseph. A new system of geography; or, A general description of the whole known world. 4th ed. London, 1772-1773.

Edited by August Ludwig von Schlözer.

Also published under title: Neue Erdbeschreibung von Amerika. Bern, 1777, in 4 v.

Direction lines read: Geogr[aphie] v[on] Amer[ika].

Page 245 misnumb.: "24"; p. 323 misnumb.: "322". Second digit (8) in p. 88 partly obliterated.

Plates (7) unnumbered; 3 of these are maps.

"Die Weygandsche Buchhandlung in Leipzig hat in jeziger Jubilatemesse 1777. folgende neue Verlagsbücher." (v. 2: p. [23-24] at end).

Local Notes:

Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Brown, J. C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:2422.

Sabin 77659.

Palmer, P. M. German works on America, p. 320.

Dippel, H. Americana Germanica, 133.

Baginsky, 545