The Resource Description of the province of New Sweden. : Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America., Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. ; Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ; With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. president of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Royal Academy of History and Belles Lettres of Stockholm, and one of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Description of the province of New Sweden. : Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America., Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. ; Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ; With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. president of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Royal Academy of History and Belles Lettres of Stockholm, and one of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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The item Description of the province of New Sweden. : Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America., Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. ; Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ; With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. president of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Royal Academy of History and Belles Lettres of Stockholm, and one of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Description of the province of New Sweden. : Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America., Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. ; Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ; With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. president of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Royal Academy of History and Belles Lettres of Stockholm, and one of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.
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- Language
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- engdeliro
- swe
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, [2], 14-166 pages, [5] leaves of plates (1 folded)
- Note
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- Translation of: Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America, som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania, first printed Stockholm, 1702
- 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. 144-156, is a "Vocabulary and phrases in the American language of New Sweden, otherwise called Pennsylvania", 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 "Discourses which took place at a council held by the Indians in 1645, on the subject of the Swedes and of New Sweden, in which their sachem or king, first speaks with his son, about calling the nation together" on p. 153-156
- Addenda, p. [157]-166, includes "Of the Minques, or Minkus, and their language" on p. [157]-159 and gives a sizeable vocabulary of words and phrases and numerals in the Iroquois language
- "A list of the Swedish families residing in New Sweden in the year 1693, with the number of individuals in each family": p. [164]-166
- Signatures: pi1 A 2-20 (2, verso blank) 21 (-21)
- Errata: p. vi, 1st count; p. 166, 3rd count
- Bookseller's advertisements: on back cover of binding
- Label
- Description of the province of New Sweden. : Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America.
- Title
- Description of the province of New Sweden.
- Title remainder
- Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America.
- Statement of responsibility
- Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. ; Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ; With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. president of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Royal Academy of History and Belles Lettres of Stockholm, and one of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Subject
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- New Sweden -- History
- Susquehanna Indians
- Indians of North America -- Middle Atlantic States
- Iroquois language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Swedes -- Delaware
- Delaware language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Indian linguistics -- Delaware language
- Imprint 1834.
- Iroquois language -- Texts
- Delaware Indians
- Catalogs, Booksellers' -- United States -- 1834
- Indian linguistics -- Iroquois language
- Delaware -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Language
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- engdeliro
- swe
- eng
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Citation location within source
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- 10203
- XXXX FILL IN FROM BIB SHEET ..
- 574
- Citation source
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- Sabin
- Larson, Esther E. Swedish commentators on America
- Pilling, J.C. North American
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- ca. 1670-1702
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Holm, Thomas Campanius
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plans
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1760-1844
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Susquehanna Indians
- Delaware Indians
- Indians of North America
- Swedes
- Delaware language
- Iroquois language
- Iroquois language
- Indian linguistics
- Indian linguistics
- Catalogs, Booksellers'
- New Sweden
- Delaware
- Label
- Description of the province of New Sweden. : Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America., Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. ; Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ; With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. president of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Royal Academy of History and Belles Lettres of Stockholm, and one of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Note
-
- Translation of: Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America, som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania, first printed Stockholm, 1702
- 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. 144-156, is a "Vocabulary and phrases in the American language of New Sweden, otherwise called Pennsylvania", 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 "Discourses which took place at a council held by the Indians in 1645, on the subject of the Swedes and of New Sweden, in which their sachem or king, first speaks with his son, about calling the nation together" on p. 153-156
- Addenda, p. [157]-166, includes "Of the Minques, or Minkus, and their language" on p. [157]-159 and gives a sizeable vocabulary of words and phrases and numerals in the Iroquois language
- "A list of the Swedish families residing in New Sweden in the year 1693, with the number of individuals in each family": p. [164]-166
- Signatures: pi1 A 2-20 (2, verso blank) 21 (-21)
- Errata: p. vi, 1st count; p. 166, 3rd count
- Bookseller's advertisements: on back cover of binding
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, [2], 14-166 pages, [5] leaves of plates (1 folded)
- Form of item
- online
- Note
- John Carter Brown Library copy bound in original printed boards with title on cover; rear board fully detached; housed in green cloth clipcase measuring 26 cm. high.
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, plans)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Description of the province of New Sweden. : Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America., Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. ; Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ; With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. president of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Royal Academy of History and Belles Lettres of Stockholm, and one of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Note
-
- Translation of: Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America, som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania, first printed Stockholm, 1702
- 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. 144-156, is a "Vocabulary and phrases in the American language of New Sweden, otherwise called Pennsylvania", 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 "Discourses which took place at a council held by the Indians in 1645, on the subject of the Swedes and of New Sweden, in which their sachem or king, first speaks with his son, about calling the nation together" on p. 153-156
- Addenda, p. [157]-166, includes "Of the Minques, or Minkus, and their language" on p. [157]-159 and gives a sizeable vocabulary of words and phrases and numerals in the Iroquois language
- "A list of the Swedish families residing in New Sweden in the year 1693, with the number of individuals in each family": p. [164]-166
- Signatures: pi1 A 2-20 (2, verso blank) 21 (-21)
- Errata: p. vi, 1st count; p. 166, 3rd count
- Bookseller's advertisements: on back cover of binding
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, [2], 14-166 pages, [5] leaves of plates (1 folded)
- Form of item
- online
- Note
- John Carter Brown Library copy bound in original printed boards with title on cover; rear board fully detached; housed in green cloth clipcase measuring 26 cm. high.
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, plans)
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Catalogs, Booksellers' -- United States -- 1834
- Delaware -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Delaware Indians
- Delaware language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Imprint 1834.
- Indian linguistics -- Delaware language
- Indian linguistics -- Iroquois language
- Indians of North America -- Middle Atlantic States
- Iroquois language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Iroquois language -- Texts
- New Sweden -- History
- Susquehanna Indians
- Swedes -- Delaware
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