[Rarebooks] fa: 18th CENTURY TITLES - BRITISH AMERICANA, BRITISH HISTORY & POLITICS, etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

A selection of 18th-century titles relating to British history & 
politics, including Americana -- ending May 20 -- no reserves and low 
openings. Some quite uncommon. They can be found at the URL below or by 
searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZarchQ5finQ5fla

Cheers,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

Including:

MASSACHUSETTS-BAY COLONY ACTS 1729-1734
Re: Indians - Anabaptists - the Merrimack River - Wesford - Bedford - 
Cleaning Fish & Killing Wild Cats...

STATE OF THE NATION 1747 - France WEST INDIES America
[John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville:] The State of the Nation For the 
Year 1747, and Respecting 1748. Inscribed to a Member of the present 
Parliament. First Edition... Contains many references to West Indian 
and North American trade (Sabin). Also includes material on the East 
Indies, the Mediterranean fleet, parliamentary politics, etc., and 
extensive review of the State of the National Debt, with tables...

SEVEN YEARS' WAR French and Indian War CANADA & AMERICA
[John Douglas:] A Letter Addressed to Two Great Men, on the Prospect of 
Peace; And on the Terms necessary to be insisted upon in the 
Negociation. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1760. First 
Edition (first issue, without errata below the word “Finis” on the last 
page)...

HISTORY of the VOYAGES of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - 1772...

SCOTLAND 1745 Jacobite Rebellion BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE
[William Grant, Lord Prestongrange:] The Occasional Writer. Containing 
an Answer to the Second Manifesto of the Pretender's eldest Son : Which 
bears Date at the Palace of Holyrood-house, the 10th day of October, 
1745. Containing Reflections, Political and Historical, upon the last 
Revolution, and the Progress of the present Rebellion in Scotland. 
London, Printed for M. Cooper, 1746.

PARLIAMENTARY ACTS relating to SCOTLAND
Debts and Crditors — Fisheries — Linen production in the Highlands

HANOVERIAN MERCENARIES
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield and Edmund Waller: The 
Case of the Hanover Forces in the Pay of Great-Britain, Impartially and 
freely examined : with some Seasonable Reflections on the Present 
Conjuncture of Affairs. London, Printed for T. Cooper, 1743... A famous 
pamphlet, commonly attributed to Chesterfield and Waller, which 
launches a blistering attack on a bill before Parliament proposing to 
hire 16,000 Hanovarian troops for the service of Britain in Flanders.

LIBEL LAW John Wilkes FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Censorship
A Letter from Candor, to the Public Advertiser. London: Printed for J. 
Almon, 1764...

ANNUAL REGISTER 1785: BALLOONING Warren Hastings STOCKS - DIAMOND 
NECKLACE AFFAIR Herschel DARWIN
The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, 
and Literature, for the Year 1785. London: G.G. J. and J. Robinson, 
1786... A rich, massive, almost day-by-day compendium of the noteworthy 
  (and many just plain odd) events, foreign and domestic, of the year 
1785, along with biographies of notables, extracts from government and 
scientific papers, literary reviews, and more...

A SKETCH OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III, from 1780, to the Close of the 
Year 1790. London: Debrett, 1791. A handsome copy of this survey of the 
tumultuous decade 1780-1790, with material on the important events of 
the time: the "madness" of King George; the American War of 
Independence; the collapse of Lord North's administration; reactions to 
the French Revolution; etc...

EDMUND BURKE: A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a 
Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made Upon Him and His Pension, in the House 
of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in 
the present Sessions of Parliament. London: Printed for J Owen ... and 
F. and C. Rivington, 1796...

EDMUND BURKE etc - Peter Pindar ODES OF IMPORTANCE
Peter Pindar [John Wolcot:] ODES OF IMPORTANCE, &c. London: Printed for 
H.D. Symonds, no 20, Paternoster-Row, 1792. Includes the satirical "Ode 
to Mr. Burke."...

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