First edition.
Presentation copy, inscribed 'To John Austin Stevens Esq, with compliments of his friend the author' on front flyleaf.
Spine and edges a bit faded, front and end matter lightly foxed.
1859 Hard Cover.
iii, [1], [11]-217, [3] pp.
8vo.
Green cloth, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped borders, brown endpapers.
Portrait plates of Valentine Mott Francis and John Wakefield Francis (one young, one old).
A doctoral thesis written by a member of the New York Historical Society, and the son of NYHS Librarian John Wakefield Francis, who founded Rutgers Medical College.