Jaray Cornell (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in good plus condition, former owners bookplate on front pastedown, mild foxing to textblock and small smudge to top edge. No DJ as issued.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Charts & Photographs (illustrator). Stapled Pamphlet. Americana: A paperback phamplet combining a presentation on Long Island windmillls delivered in 1935 and a later piece on watermills. In good condition. Thank you for shopping at an independent bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Empire State Historical Publications Series No. 35; 2 volumes--Empire State Historical Publications Series no. 35 & 36.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reissue. Hardcover in orange cloth lettered in black. First edition thus with a critical introduction by Milton W. Hamilton. A fine, fresh, bright example (issued without dust jacket). Reissues of 1860 and 1862 printings of the three included essays which in turn first appeared in 1655, 1695, and 1701. Contains: "Voyages From Holland to America A.D. 1632 to 1644" by David Peterson DeVries (first printed in Holland in 1655); " A Two Years Journal In New York and Part of Its Territories in America" by Charles Wooley (London, 1701), and " A Description of the Province and City of New York, With Plans of the City and Several Forts as They Existed in the Year 1695" by John Miller (first published 1843 from the original manuscript of 1695).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile. Historic Chronicles of New Amsterdam, Colonial New York and Early Long Island; Second Series (1968) ? A Rare Scholarly Collection of Foundational Americana Two Essential 17th and 19th Century Historical Classics in One Authoritative Volume Elevate your New York history collection with this significant 1968 edition, published as No. 36 in the prestigious Empire State Historical Publications Series. This volume brings together two of the most vital primary records of early American settlement, making it a must-have for historians, genealogists, and collectors of New York lore. Collector Highlights: Daniel Denton's "A Brief Description of New York" (1670): A faithful reprint from the 1845 Gowans' edition of the first English account of New York. Denton's vivid descriptions offer a rare, firsthand look at the flora, fauna, and indigenous inhabitants of the region just years after the English takeover from the Dutch. Silas Wood's "A Sketch of the First Settlement of Long Island" (1824): Reprinted from the 1865 Furman Club edition, this is a cornerstone of Long Island historiography, documenting the political and social evolution of the several towns through the end of the American Revolution. Expert Context: Features a critical introduction by the esteemed City College historian Sidney I. Pomerantz, providing essential modern scholarship to these historic texts. Condition & Binding: Binding: Original publisher's Cloth. State: Very Good. The volume is structurally sound and clean. A small, unobtrusive owner's signature in pencil is present on the front free endpaper (f.f.e.p.), adding a touch of personal provenance. Format: 8vo (Octavo). An investment-grade acquisition for serious researchers of New Amsterdam, Colonial New York, and the foundational history of Long Island. [Store Loc. 2.3].

8vo., orange cloth covered boards, hardcover; Empire State Historical Publications Series No. 35; Introduction by Milton W. Hamilton; Includes: Voyages From Holland to America in the Seventeenth Century by David P DeVries, A Two Years Journal in New York by Charles Wooley, and A Description of the Province and city of New York by John Miller; a very good clean tight copy.