Algemeine Geschichte der Länder und Völker von America
By: nebst einer Vorrede Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens ...
Contributors: Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob, 1706-1757; Lafitau, Joseph-François, 1681-1746; Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761; Gebauer, Johann Justinus, 1710-1772; Schleuen, Johann David, fl. 1740-1774
Publisher: Bey Johann Justinius Gebauer
Published: 1752
Place of publication: Halle
Language: ger
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Indians; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration; Slavery
Notes: Dedication signed: J.F.S. [i.e. Johann Friedrich Schröter].

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. 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).

Includes index.

Plates engraved by Johann David Schleuen.

Lib. Company.  Afro-Americana, 9182

Binding: old calf; gilt spine; sprinkled edges.