Identifier: fatherland14501701sach (find matches)
Title: The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; pt. I. of a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919
Subjects: Germans Germans
Publisher: Philadelphia : the author
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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