Simler, Johann Wilhelm, editor:

$3,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

VIER LOBLICHER STATT ZURICH VERBURGERTER REISS BESCHREIBUNGEN: GESCHEHEN 1. DAS GELOBTE-LAND. 2. DIE INSUL JAMAICA. 3. DIE CARIBES INSLEN, UND NEUW ENGEL LAND, IN AMERICA. 4. DIE LANDTSCHAFFT FETU IN ... The first collected edition of these travel accounts by citizens of Zurich, containing the first editions of three of the titles: H.J. Zeller and H. Huser's "A new description of the island of Jamaica"; Felix-Christian Spori's "American travel account to the Caribbean Islands and New England"; and Hans-Jacob Zur Eich's [i.e. W.J. Muller] "African travel journal to Fetu on the African Gold Coast." The first work by Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine," had been published in 1618 and 1630. Several of the plates are unusual images of Africans on the Gold Coast. Only a handful of copies on OCLC.

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