Danckaerts Jasper Edited Bartlett Burleigh (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Private bookplate on endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Uncommon first edition with DJ nicely in archival wraps with significant chips taken from the front panel; age toning to the dusty pages. Inscribed on the inside end page by the editor J. Franklin Jameson to Gilbert Chinard and dated Nov. 2, 1925. Chinard himself was a noted French-American historian and professor at Princeton University. Very uncommon as such. Jasper Danckaerts was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River in what is now Maryland. He is known for his journal, kept while traveling through the territory which had previously been part of the New Netherland. Documenting his journey in 1679-1680, it offers a description of the landscape and the lifestyle of inhabitants of the region in the late 17th century. It is one of the earliest description of the region that had been part of New Netherland, now New York, New Jersey and Delaware. The original Dutch manuscript was acquired in 1864 by Henry C. Murphy, then corresponding secretary of the Long Island Historical Society, in an old book-store in Amsterdam. Murphy published an English translation in 1867. This revised edition appeared as Original Narratives of Early American History, edited by J. B. Bartlett of the Maryland Historical Society and J. F. Jameson, director of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institutions of Washington in 1913. Signed by Author(s).