Poughkeepsie, NY: Platt & Schram, Printers, 1858. Octavo, rebound in old half sheep and marbled boards, orginal thin orange front wrapper bound in. xxvi, 335 pp, including a second and even more verbose title page. The first title page continues: "With which is interwoven an Historical and Ethnological Account of the Menapii; The ancient Zeelanders and Dutch Flemings. Compiled from upwards of two hundred Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Authorities." >>>Front hinge neatly repaired internally with paper. rear hinge cracked, weak, but cover attached; wear to joints and edges; old removed tape scars across spine and inner margins of covers; clean closed horizontal tears to orange bound in wrapper neatly repaired on black verso with clear archival paper tape; very small chip to upper outer corner of first title leaf; text paper toned as always. Text is clean and tight. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front pastedown by someone in the Attorney General's Office in Albany. Note: the author's printed preface is dated April, 1859 (in error?)