[Rarebooks] fa: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR - MEMOIRE HISTORIQUE sur la NEGOCIATION 1761

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, May 19. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

Memoire Historique sur la Negociation de la France et de l'Angleterre depuis le 26 Mars 1761 jusqu'au 20 Sept. de la meme annee, avec les Pieces Justificatives. Ratisbonne: Chez les Freres Zunkel, [1761]. Untrimmed in early/period stiff marbled wraps; 4to (24.5 cm); [2] + 94 pp.; woodcut title-page vignette, borders and  decorations. Howes M507; Sabin 47516.

Wear and short tears and chipping to the edges of the wraps, loss to the spine, binding tender but secure; title-page with faded notation in red pencil (dated 1761) to the top margin; contents with scattered light spotting, dust-soiling and some bumping to the untrimmed edges; otherwise quite clean and sound. Verso of the title-page with the small early inkstamp of the Grossherzogliche Bibliothek, Neustrelitz [Germany].

An uncommon, important collection of papers and letters relating to the negotiations to end the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), negotiations that resulted, two years later, in the Treaty of Paris, by which the French ceded Canada to Britain. Issued by order of the French government at a particularly acrimonious stage of the proceedings, the papers were arranged and edited to put the British (William Pitt, etc.) in the worst possible light. Along with Canada, other subjects discussed are the colony of Louisiana (and its geographical limits), the Newfoundland fisheries, Guadeloupe and the West Indies, Cape Breton, etc. A solid copy of an historically significant document, and with a fittingly Germanic provenance: speaking of the key role Britain's Prussian allies played in winning the war, Pitt once remarked, "America was won in Germany."