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Author	Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Title	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 or ever will be published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker ; the whole embellish'd by eight pictures from the hand of Maxfield Parrish, Esqre.
Publication Info.	London : Published by John Lane, Anno Domini MCM [1900] (Boston : D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press)

Location	Call No.	Status
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Description	xxxi, [3], 298, [4] p. (last 3 p. blank), [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Note	Red and black t.p.
	"Copyright, 1900 by Robert Howard Russell. Printed in the United States"--T.p. verso.
	Printer statement on t.p. verso.
	Library copy is a gift of Jane Block; acquisition date stamp on p. v: February 13, 2011; partly unopened. Original binding. ZNS
Subject	New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
	Dutch Americans -- New York (State) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction.
	Dutch Americans -- New York (State) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction.
	City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
	City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
	Dutch Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Fiction.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Genre or Form	Contemporary bindings (Binding) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1900.
	Unopened books (Binding) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1900.
Added Author	Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966, illustrator.
	Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941, printer.
	Merrymount Press, printer.
	John Lane Company, publisher.
	Russell, Robert Howard, copyright holder.
	R.H. Russell (Firm), copyright holder.
	Block, Jane, donor. ZNS
Added Title	History of New York. 1900
Note	Half title: History of New York &c.
Cover Title	Knickerbocker's History of New York

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