The digitization program of travel books and early North-Americana at the State and University Library at Göttingen aims at digitizing and publishing SUB's extensive collections of travel accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries. For this project the accounts from European travellers in particular and preferably in their mother tongues have been selected. In addition special interest has been put on texts translated into German or re-editions of foreign accounts with German commentaries. In the 18th and 19th centuries German interest in America was considerable, so, for example, in the 18th century new German translations appeared of the accounts of such well-known and important travellers from previous centuries as Amerigo Vespucci, Garcilasco de la Vega and Captain John Smith. As far as the American natives are concerned, the reports of German missionaries as they are represented in the Göttingen collection should be of considerable interest. Perhaps more important are the numerous advertisements and descriptions of the colonies and new territories published in Germany at that time to incite immigration. The collection comprises more than 500 volumes from 360 different authors (04 Feb 2000). The digital collection is browsable by collection, author, title, and year of publication, and it has a simple and advanced search option. A cross-collection search option offers easy access to the collection as a whole.