MISCELLANEOUS WORKS by General J Watts de Peyster is a volume bound in 3/4 leather measuring 9 3/8" x 6" with 800+ pages containing 12 publications:
Description of Medals Presented by HRM Oscar, King of Sweden and Norway...to Gen J Watts de Peyster with the Letter by Order of HRM from Colonel, Count Eric de Lewenhaupt, Privy Secretary to HRM, the King of Sweden in relation thereto. etc etc etc, Stockholm December 22, 1856 with 6 pages, text in English, published Tivoli NY 1857.
History of the Life of Leonard Torstenson (Lennart Torstenson) Senator of Sweden, Count of Ortala, Chief of the Swedish Artillery under, and Generalissimo of the Swedish Armies subsequent to the Death of Gustavus Adolphus by J Watts de Peyster, 1855 Poughkeepsie NY with 284 pages + index.
The Dutch at The North Pole and The Dutch in Maine, a paper read before the New York Historical Society, 3d March 1857 by de Peyster and printed for the Society 1857, 80 pages + erratum slip
The Dutch Battle of the Baltic: One of the Most Glorious Achievements of the Mariners of Holland...dedicated to the St Nicolaus Society of the City of Nieuw Amseterdam and all true Knikkerbakkers by a member (de Peyster) Poughkeepsie 1855, 88 pages
An Address to the Officers of the New York state Troops by J Watts de Peyster, Brigadier General, NYSMF 19th of January 1858, Tivoli, 40 pages with inked corrections and notations
A Discourse on The Tendency of High Church Doctrines by a Layman, 19 pages including the Creed or Expression of Religious Sentiments of William Livingston
In Memoriam. Then Maria! Verses written, Extracts translated and Sermons composed and delivered on the Occasion of the DEATH of a Dear Little Girl (Maria Livingston, youngest daughter of John Watts and Estelle de Peyster) aged 5 years 2 months and 17 days, 56 pages published 1857 in Poughkeepsie
The Bible In Prison, translated from the Italian by J Watts de Peyster, P Dean Carrique's Print, Gazette Office, Hudson, 8 pages
DE PEYSTER (de Peyster) and WATTS (Watt) GENEALOGICAL REFERENCE, xvii Introduction + 249 pages with a few pencilled x's in margins
An 8 page Addenda containing genealogical information, an 8 page Memorials of a Birthday Breakfast given on the Anniversary of His One Hundredth Birthday to Captain Frederic Lahrbush (La Bouche) by de Peyster, and a 16 page Resolution from the State of New York to de Peyster conferring the rank of Brevet Major-General in the State National Guard are laid in.
John Watts de Peyster (1821-1907) was soldier, author and philanthropist descended from early Dutch settlers in New York State. The book is inscribed inside its rear cover To My Baby's favorite uncle from his affectionate Brother-in-Law, and inked at top of the inside rear cover is L S Livingston. (The de Peyster and Livingston families were long connected, J Watts de Peyster's son was named Johnston Livingston de Peyster.)
Light extremity wear, bottom 2 1/4" of outside hinge splitting, endpapers foxed, light random interior foxing; otherwise solid and clean.
A rare collection of publications, several rare, with association to prominent early New York state families.
Thank you.