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EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT DESCRIPTION OF NEW SWEDEN
ACRELIUS, Israel. Beskrifning Om De Swenska Församlingars Forna och Närwarande Tilstånd, uti det så kallade Nya Swerige, Sedan Nya Nederland. Men nu för tiden Pensylvanien, samt nästliggande Orter wid Älfwen De la Ware, Wäst-Yersey och New-Castle County uti Norra America.
Stockholm, Harberg & Hesselberg, 1759. 4to. Later half calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
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EXTREMELY RARE description of "New Sweden", the Swedish colonies in Pennsylvania and parts of Delaware and New Jersey. "This important work is hardly less scarce than that of Campanius... especially when in good condition; it has, besides, the merit of being much more extensive and of reproducing a large number of documents, partly unpublished... Among (Acrelius') sources we find the Archives of New York, an unpublished Manuscript (evidently very valuable) of A. Rudman, who was Superintendant at Wicacoa in 1679, and who collected all relating to the early history of the Swedish colonies in America, further the Royal Archives at Stockholm, and, besides the Swedish historians: Campanius... Swedberg Biörck etc... It must be regretted that down to this day no complete translation of this work has been published. Its real historical value certainly would procure a place to a translation in many a library to which the original edition is unattainable for its extreme rarity" (Muller). A good copy.
