1893 A HISTORY OF NEW YORK-KNICKERBOCKER WASHINGTON IRVING 2 VOLS ILLUSTRATED

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Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FR KNICKERBOCKER EDITION published by G. P. PUTNAM SONS 1893 . KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK -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, etc... It begins as a comic parady of historical scholarship and ends as a straight account of Dutch colonization. Washington Irving- A renowned American man of letters was born April 3, 1783, and died at Sunnyside near Tarrytown, N.Y., Nov. 28, 1859. He had poor health and caused him to go abroad many times. He was appointed Minister to Spain and secretary of legation at London. He encouraged American cultural life by his professional example. VOL. I--364 pages. Vol. 2- 379 pages. Upper gilt edge. WE WILL COMBINE SALES TO SAVE ON MAILING.