New York considered and improved, 1695. Published from the original MS. in the British Museum. With introduction and notes by Victor Hugo Paltsits of the New York Public Library

MILLER, JOHN

Published by Burrows Brothers, Cleveland, 1903

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Edition limited to 400 copies, this being no. 249, 8vo, 135pp., 2 folding mss. facsimile plates & 4 folding mss. facsimile maps; handsomely printed text in original drab paper covered boards, the spine cracking, with able tape repairs, upper spine end lacking approx. 1/2", the covers slightly bowed, else very good. Miller (1666-1724), appointed "Chaplain to the two Companies of foot in the Colony of Newyorke," arrived in the province in 1692. During his three-year residency, Miller "was the sole officiating Episcopal clergyman in the entire province of New York." He wrote the mss. describing his tenure in the New World while a prisoner of the French on St. Malo, in 1696. Although a version of the manuscript was first published in London, 1843 (and reprinted in the States in 1862), this small volume is the first verbatim appearance of his work.

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• Title: New York considered and improved, 1695. Published from the original MS. in the British Museum. With introduction and notes by Victor Hugo Paltsits of the New York Public Library
• Publisher: Burrows Brothers, Cleveland
• Publication Date: 1903
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