[Rarebooks] fa: SEVEN YEARS' WAR + MAPS of WEST INDIES, NORTH AMERICA &c. in 1762 Gentleman's Magazine

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auctions ending Sunday, February 23. 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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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXXII [32]. For the Year MDCCLXII [1762]. London: Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, [1762]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + 634 + [16] pp.; with numerous in-text tables, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, plus 14 copper-engraved plates and maps, ten of which are folding...

With extensive contemporary coverage of the SEVEN YEARS' WAR (French and Indian War), particularly as it pertains to the WEST INDIES & NORTH AMERICA, including: folding maps of the Spanish West Indies, the Siege of Havannah (Havana), and the British Empire in North America as settled by the Preliminary Treaty of 1762; single-page maps of Jamaica and the City and Harbour of the Havannah; a portrait of Lord Albermarle, Commander in Chief at the Conquest of the Havannah; plus numerous essays, reports, letters, dispatches, etc., from the various theatres of war: Papers relative to the Rupture with Spain; Account of the Surrender of Fort St. Pierre at Martinico (Martinique); Description of the Havana; Account of the taking of the Havnnah (Capitulation of the Town; Cannon, &c. taken; Killed and Wounded; Ships taken; an Engineer's Journal of the Siege; etc.); Colonel Amherst's Account of re-taking Newfoundland; etc., etc.