[Rarebooks] fa: 1759 Gentleman's Magazine: GUADELOUPE & MARTINIQUE - SURRENDER OF QUEBEC &c.

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Auction ending Sunday, October 9. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXIX [29]. For the Year MDCCLIX [1759]. London: Printed for D. Henry, and R. Cave, at St. John's Gate, [1759]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, preface, and indices. Thick 8vo (21.5 cm) in early/period calf; [4] + 643 + [17] pp.; with numerous charts and tables, in-text diagrams, illustrations and plans, plus 22 copper-engraved maps and plates, 9 of which are folding (complete).

With extensive contemporary coverage of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) in the Americas, including:
	- A Map of the Country between CROWN POINT and FORT EDWARD, in America.
	- A Map of Orleans, and part of QUEBEC.
	- A Plan of a part of the RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.
	- A Map of MARTINICO [MARTINIQUE] and of Basse Ferre, in Guadaloupe.
	- A Map of GUADALOUPE [GUADELOUPE], and of Marie-Galante.
	- A lengthy essay regarding the Treaty of Peace with Indians in 1758.
	- An Account of the Expedition of Gen. Forbes from Philadelphia to Fort Duquesne (now Pitsburg).
	- Account of the taking of Guadaloupe.
	- Letter from Sir Wm Johnson to Major Gen. Amherst, dated Niagara, 25th of July, 1759. [with] Articles of Capitulation granted to the Garrison of Niagara.
	- Operations of the Army before Quebec [and] Authentic Accounts of the Proceedings before Quebec.
	- Reasons for Restoring Canada to the French.
	- Instructions for making Wine in America.
	- etc., etc.

Additional maps, plates, and features of interest include:
	- A Map of GERMANY (closed tear at the right edge) and A Map of part of Germany, the Seat of War in 1759.
	- A Plan of TOULON and A Plan of HAVRE-DE-GRACE and the Coast adjacent.
	- A Map of WESTPHALIA and A Plan of the Battle of Thornhausen.
	- A Map of POMERANIA and Brandenburg.
	- A folding plate of George Dollond's MICROMETER, with accompanying description.
	- A plate depicting A CHAIR FOR DEAF PERSONS.
	- Several articles on new discoveries at HERCULANEUM.
	- A Syren [mermaid] drawn from the Life.
	- MURDER: A Relation of the Facts that appeared upon the Trial of of Mary Edmonson, for the Murder of her Aunt Susannah Walker...; Account of the Murder of Daniel Clark...and of the Trial of Eugene Aram.; Account of William Andrew... executed for the Murder [thirty-five years before] of a Child.
	- Plus monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Registers of Books published, Bills of Mortality, Obituaries, listings of Bankrupts and Ships Taken [captured]; newspaper extracts; and much more.

Binding worn and rubbed, spine label gone; contents with generally light browning, occasionally more pronounced, a few spots and stains, three text leaves protruding from the text block with wear to the fore-edges, else quite clean and sound, firmly bound.