MICHAELIUS, Jonas. - Manhattan in 1628 as described in the recently discovered autograph letter of Jonas Michaëlius written from the settlement on the 8th of August of that year and now first published. With a review of the letter and an historical sketch of New Netherland to 1628 by Dingman Versteeg.

New York, Dodd Mead & Company,1904. 4to. Original boards (spine half cloth). With facsimiles. XII,203 pp. Number 30 of 50 copies printed on imperial Japan paper. - Jonas Michaëlius (1577 - after 1638) was the first clergyman to lead a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in America. Contains the first printing in separate form of a letter of 1628 giving the first description of New York City (Howes M577).

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