[Rarebooks] fa: London Magazine 1745 - JACOBITE RISING and GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th-19th Century British books and  
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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A., CA USA


The London Magazine: and Monthly Chronologer. MDCCXLV [1745]. London:  
Printed for T. Astley, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row, [1745-6].  
Twelve monthly issues, January-December 1745, plus volume title,  
appendix, indexes and a preface. Thick 8vo (21 cm); 18th-century calf  
and marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt-stamped year and  
leather spine label; iv + 657 + [19] pp.; with engraved title-page, 2  
maps/plans, woodcut decorations, musical notation.

An important volume for its extensive contemporary coverage of "THE  
FORTY-FIVE," the Jacobite uprising in Scotland led by the Young  
Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, better known as BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE.
  Other notable features include:

An uncommon GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL item: musical notation for an anti- 
Jacobite, patriotic "Song for the Gentlemen Volunteers of the City of  
London. Set to Musick by Mr. Handel"

Observations in several Voyages and Travels in America (mostly related  
to GEORGIA, including A Description of Frederica and St. Simons  
Island, Savannah, and the Scottish settlement at New-Inverness or  
Darien)

Numerous articles related to the ongoing WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN  
SUCCESSION (Account of the Action near Tournay [the disastrous Battle  
of Fontenoy], with the Names of the General and other Officers, and  
Number of private Men and Horses that were killed, wounded and  
missing; A French Account of the Battle of Fontenoy; The Conquest of  
Cape Breton; Brave Action of Capt. Brett in the Lion; Rich Prizes  
Taken; etc.
Two full-page WOOD-ENGRAVED PLATES: Plan of Cape Breton and Plan of  
Ostend etc...