1849 History of New York O’Callaghan Colonial America Quakers Settlements

“The chief storehouse of material on the history of Colonial New York!” (Larned)

Edmund Bailey O’Callaghan was a 19th-century Irish-born journalist who is most-remembered for his iconic work on the history of New York. This work, “Documentary History of the State of New York” is one of the most important historical works on New York and covers early colonial Americana through the 19th-century.

This large, impressive work cover a wide variety of topics including slave census, state of the Anglo-American church, discussions on Quakers and Moravians, voyages of Gideon Hawley, Chaplain’s expeditions, and the Dutch settlements in New York.

First edition of volume I under a new title. According to Larned, this work is,

“a collection of miscellaneous documents, correspondence and other material relating to the colonial history of New York, published by the state after being collected and arranged by one of its leading archivists. This series is one of the chief storehouses of material on the history of colonial New York.”

Item number: #5054

Price: $199

O’CALLAGHAN, Edmund Bailey

The documentary history of the State of New York.

Albany : Weed, Parsons, 1849.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

volume 1

786p; lacking all engravings

References: Larned 1085; Howes O 17 (not this ed)

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Size: ~9.5in X 6in (24cm x 15cm)

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