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 achievments of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been, or ever will be published. / By Diedrich Knickerbocker. ; [Two line of Dutch verse] ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17820.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

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

New York (State).

Genre:

Satires.

Humor.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : 1 illustration ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Published by Inskeep & Bradford, New York; Bradford & Inskeep, Philadelphia; Wm. M'Ilhenney, Boston; Coale & Thomas, Baltimore; and Morford, Willington, & Co. Charleston., 1809.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

By Washington Irving.

Frontispiece signed: Copied from an ancient etching of the same size, published by Justus Danckers, at Amsterdam.

"Copy-right secured according to law."--versos of title pages.

Vol. 1: [5], viii-xxiii, [1], 268 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [2], 258 p.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17820).

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