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Philadelphia: The Swedish Colonial Society, 1913. 318pp.map. Blue cloth, Attractive Gilt emblem on the front panel. foldouot map of New Sweden.Rear inner hinge starting. raised bands. Inner hinges starting., otherwise an attractive copy. " One of the earliest European residents upon the river Delaware, and for more than a quarter of a century the chief proprietor of land at Upland, New Sweden, afterwards Chester, Pennsylvania, was born in Sweden about A. D. 1620. He came to America in company with Governor John Printz, in the ship Fama, which "sailed from Stockholm," narrates Magister John Campanius Holm, a fellow-passenger in the same vessel, "on the 16th of August, 1642," and, after stopping at Dahlehamn, Copenhagen, and f-Ielsingor, left Gottenburg Castle for the "Spanish Sea" (as the Atlantic Ocean was at one time called) "on the 1st of November, at noon." . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo.