A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty
Subtitle: 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 [sic] 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: By Diedrich Knickerbocker. ; [Two line of Dutch verse] ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17820
Publisher: Published by Inskeep & Bradford, New York; Bradford & Inskeep, Philadelphia; Wm. M'Ilhenney, Boston; Coale & Thomas, Baltimore; and Morford, Willington, & Co. Charleston.
Published: 1809
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Humor
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.

Shaw & Shoemaker 17820

BAL 10098

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 1408

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.