Extra-Illustrated. Peyster (Frederic de), William III as a R...

Extra-Illustrated. Peyster (Frederic de), William III as a Reformer, An Address Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, at the Celebration of its Sixty-Ninth Anniversary, Tuesday, January 6, 1874, signed presentation copy from the author: tipped-in compliments slip, inscribed to Joseph M. Price, Feb 1st/1874, first edition, New York: Published for the Society, 1874, frontispiece, grangerised with an additional 50 prints, 17th c and later, comprising engravings, etchings, one mezzotint, and one lithograph, portraits after Old Masters, including Johan Mauritsm 'Brazillian' van Nassau-Siegen, n.d. [c. 1650-79], etching and engraving; Johannes de Peyster, 24th Mayor of New York Society and the first of this family in New York, dated 1801, lithograph; etc., broad margins, contemporaneous crimson three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, large 8vo

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