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NEW YORK STATE. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Albany, Weed, Parsons, 1856-1861, 1877. Large quarto. Twelve volumes, with 600 to 800 pages each. The first eight volumes contain documents compiled, transcribed, and translated by John R. Brodhead, who, "by virtue of an act of the legislature," was sent to Holland, England and France for the task. These include accounts of interactions between settlers and natives, trade and agriculture, boundaries, hostilities, etc. Fold-outs show early maps, some hand-colored, including the Indian nations. Volumes IX and X contain documents transcribed and translated in Paris by E.B. O'Callaghan, who oversaw the entire work. Volume XI is the Index, prepared by O'Callaghan. Volume XII (1877) contains documents relating to the History of the Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River, compiled in Albany and Stockholm by B. Fernow. All are bound in brown publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. For the most part all are VG, with the exception of weak hinges and damage to spine heads in Volumes II and VIII, and the outer spine off the Index volume., Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of NEW YORK STATE : DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, incunabula, livres anciens, out of print books and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |