Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
AN EARLY DUTCH ACCOUNT OF THEIR LOSS OF NEW AMSTERDAM (NEW YORK.) Kort en Bondigh Verhael van 't geene in den Oorlogh Tusschen den Koningh van Engelant. Copperplate illustrations, lacks folding plates. Short 4to, contemporary calf gilt, front joint split; minor dampstaining, small sections of front free endpaper and flyleaf missing, not affecting text. Amsterdam: Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1667

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first edition. Contemporary Dutch account of the Anglo-Dutch War of 1664-1667, including what may be the first acknowledgment in Dutch of the new English colony of New York: "en voorts de heele Nieu-Nederlantse Provincie hadden te onder gebracht, dat noemende Nieuw Jorck" (page 43). "This rare work may be considered as the most complete and authentic contemporary account of the war between Holland and England, the consequence of which was the final loss of New-Netherland"--Sabin 38247. "The first printed report" of the capture of New-Netherland--Muller 1103. Church 599, European Americana 667/90, JCB page III:160. Bound with (as at the NYPL and JCB) "Articulen van Vrede Ende Verbondt," 1667. "The original of the Treaty of Breda; relates to the New Netherlands"--Sabin 2158.