Discourse Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, at the Anniversary Meeting, 6th December, 1811
New York: James Eastburn, 1812. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Item #8831
Octavo. 81, [1 (errata)] pp. First edition. As issued, in printed wrappers (rear wrapper lacking). Ex-historical society library with stamps on the front cover and the upper and lower margin of the opening page of the "discourse"; deckled edges a bit tattered; dog-earing; soiling and contemporary marginalia to the final page; only light toning to the contents.
Field calls this, "One of the best geographical, political and historical, views of the [Indigenous Americans], who inhabited the State of New York, ever written" Field 329. Several appendices with noteworthy material: "Appendix, no. I. M. de la Barre's harangue, and the Grangula's reply."; "Appendix, no. II. Speech of the Mowhawk chiefs to the magistrates of Albany, on the 25th of March, 1689-90, after the destruction of Schenectady."; and "Appendix, no. III. Substance of the speech of Good Peter to Governor Clinton and the commissioners of Indian Affairs, at Albany, on the occasion referred to in the discourse." Shaw & Shoemaker 25098. Sabin 13714.
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