Staat von America
Publisher: Renger
Published: 1713
Place of publication: Halle
Language: ger
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Civilization; Indians of North America; Natural history; Indians of South America; History
Notes: Attributed to Caspar Gottschling by the Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Suggested date of publication of 1713 supplied by Jantz and the Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Suggested date of publication of 1717 given erroneously by Puttick and Simpson in Bibliotheca mejicana: A catalogue of an extraordinary collection of books & manuscripts, almost wholly relating to the history of North and South America, particularly Mexico. To be sold by auction, printed London, 1869.

According to Heinsius' "Allgemeines Bücher-Lexicon," vol. 3, 1812, this forms one a series of works on Asia, Africa, and America, published by Renger in Halle, 1709-1724. A similar series describing European countries was issued by the same publisher in 1720. Cf. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, no. 90016.

This work is principally an account of the flora, fauna, and native inhabitants of North and South America; p. 249 has the northern Indian funeral speech from Lahontan, out of which Schiller developed his "Nadowessiers"

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Engraved head and tail pieces.

Engraved frontispiece illustration depicts the god Huitzilopochtli or Huitziláihuitl, an Aztec god symbolized by the hummingbird, was the god of the sun and war and has title "Vitzlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum"

German Baroque literature, 1181.

Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 1492-1800, 393.

Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts 11264705.

European Americana 713/84.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: Politische Fata der Insul Sicilien oder Historische Nachricht von den verschiedenen Regiments-Veränderungen dieser Insul, und wie der Hertzog von Savonen sich jungsthin zun Könige von solcher krönen lassen, [S.l.], printed in 1714.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum over boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Gregorian Fund.