Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
THE FALL OF NEW AMSTERDAM (ANGLO-DUTCH WAR.) Description Exacte de tout ce qui s'est passé dans les Guerres entre le Roy d'Angleterre, le Roy de France, les Estats des Provinces Unies du Pay-Bas, & l'Evesque de Munster. 9 half-page etched illustrations, including title vignette. 241, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, spine darkened, covers slightly warped, turn-ins sprung; contents browned, front free endpaper loose, title chipped along fore edge. Amsterdam: Jacques Benjamin, 1668

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first edition in french of a contemporary account of the 1664-67 war between England and the Netherlands, during which the English seized the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, renaming it New York. The original version in Dutch was published the year before. Alden 668/43.