A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New-Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Contributor:

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New York (State).

History.

Penn Provenance:

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 (autograph)

Physical Description:

xxx, 368 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Tegg : Rodwell and Martin ; Glasgow : R. Griffin and Co., 1824.

Notes:

"C. Whittingham, College House, Chiswick."--T.p. verso.

Title vignette by G. Cruikshank.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has annotation, written in ms., by Charles G. Leland.

Culture Class Collection copy has 6 x 10 cm. black bordered card of Mr., Mrs., and Miss de Filliettaz Bosquet pasted on a preliminary page.

Cited in:

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) III:72

OCLC:

8262613