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1902 New Amsterdam: Studies, Social and Topographical, of the Town under Dutch and Early English Rule
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Description
First Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
An account of New Amsterdam and its people, with a history of the seventeenth-century Dutch settlement, and details on the colonisation and development until its end in 1664, when the English took over and renamed it New York after the Duke of York.
The very scarce first edition of 1902, an exceptional copy which illustrated the beginnings and early history of what would be the famous city New York, known as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world. Illustrated with a folding plate frontispiece, and thirty-four full page plates, including four folding plans. Collated, complete.
Condition
in the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. A touch of fading to the spine. Loosely inserted, some newspaper cuttings on the history of New Amsterdam. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor offsetting to the frontispiece and half title, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Most leaves unopened. Illustrated with a folding plate frontispiece, and thirty-four full page plates, including a folding plan of Amsterdam. Collated, complete.
Near Fine
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