Item #43065 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 governers of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that hath ever been published. Washington IRVING, pseud. Diedrich KNICKERBOCKER.

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 governers of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that hath ever been published.

London: John Bumpus, 1825. [History] Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.xx; 340. Bound in pictorial paper boards, with titles to spine and publisher's advertisements to rear boards, edges uncut. Binding is rubbed and chipped, with a small split to front hinge. Text shows some spotting, particularly to front matter. Very good. A curious volume of satirical anecdotes of old New York. Item #43065

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