Beyträge zur geheimen Geschichte des menschlichen Verstandes und Herzens
Subtitle: Aus den Archiven der Natur gezogen
Publisher: bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Carlsruhe
Language: ger
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Folklore
Other titles: Sammlung der besten deutschen prosaischen Schriftsteller und Dichter. 35. Theil.
Notes: Originally published Leipzig, 1770.

Another edition is known to exist, published Reutlingen, 1776.

First (series) title page reads: Sammlung der besten deutschen prosaischen Schriftsteller und Dichter Fünf und dreyssigster Theil. Wielands Beyträge. Carlsruhe bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder 1776.

Special title page (p.[15]) gives same information as main title page (p.[3]), but has additional statement: In zweyen Theilen, and it is dated 1775.

Vignette on series and main title page.

Signatures: pi⁸ A-T⁸ U⁴ chi1 (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, pi7 verso, pi8 verso, D4 verso, H1 verso, L4 verso, O5 verso, R8 verso blank)

Text divided into 6 books; books 1 (p.[13], [1]-54) and 5 (p.[217]-270) deal with the story of Koxkox and Kikequetzal, two Mexican Indians.

BN 223:43 (no.68)

John Carter Brown Library copy, bound in contemporary paper boards, has 2 half titles for the first book, resulting in 18 preliminary unnumbered pages.