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Hardcover, cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 204 pages. Bibliography, Index. First edition. An account of the commercial beginnings of he Dutch Colony of New Netherlands from 1609, its anguishing attempts for flourish in light of political and economic divisions emanating from across the Atlantic, and its final absorption in 1664 into the nascent British North American Empire as New York. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy in moderately rubbed dust-jacket. Very good in a good dust-jacket.