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Extracts from a work called Breeden raedt aen de Vereenighde Nederlandsche provintien : printed in Antwerp in 1649 / translated from the Dutch original by Mr. C. [F.W. Cowan].

Accession number
PML 196548
Published
Amsterdam : F. Muller, 1850.
Credit line
Purchased on the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
"The pamphlet as a whole is an attack on the Dutch West India Company. The extracts here translated relate to the administration of the affairs of New Netherlands by Governors Kieft and Stuyvesant. The authorship has been attributed to Cornelis Melyn"--LC card 7-34836. For the account of the original pamphlet see Asher, G.M.A bibliographical and historical essay on the Dutch books . relating to New-Netherland. Amsterdam, 1854-67, p. 183-200.
"One hundred copies printed, of which six are on large paper. Partly included in Muller's catalogue, pp. 38-46"--Sabin.
Description
14 pages, 1 leaf ; 18.5 x 11 cm
Provenance
G. & B. Westermann Bros., bookseller in New York, stamp; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900, removed from PML 3421.
Binding
Disbound, in folder.
Classification
Department