Knickerbocker’s History of New York

By

Washington Irving

With Illustrations

by

Edward W. Kemble

Vol I.

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

NEW YORK LONDON

27 West Twenty-third St. 24 Bedford Street, Strand

The Knickerbocker Press

1894

COPYRIGHT, 1893

BY

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

G. P. Putnam’s Sons

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, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong; the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam, being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been or Ever Will Be Published

by

Diedrich Knickerbocker

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Die komt mit klaarheid aan den dag

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