[Rarebooks] fa: 1760 Gentleman's Magazine: MONTREAL & QUEBEC - CHEROKEE WAR - POLAR CIRCLE, &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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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXX [30]. For the Year MDCCLX [1760]. London: Printed for D. Henry, and R. Cave, at St. John's Gate, [1760]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, preface, and indices. Thick 8vo (21.5 cm) in early/period calf-backed marbled boards; [4] + 623 + [17] pp.; with numerous charts and tables, in-text diagrams and illustrations, plus 20 copper-engraved maps and plates, 9 of which are folding (complete).

Contains much on the conclusion of the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War in the Americas, including:
	- A folding Plan of MONTREAL and Map of the Country Adjacent, showing Gen. Amherst's March
	- Particular and Authentic Account of the taking of Montreal
	- Articles of Capitulation of Montreal
	- Proceedings of the Army at Quebec
	- French Account of the raising the Siege of Quebec
	- Charges against Gen. T—sh—d [Townshend] for his Conduct at Quebec
	- The Importance of Canada fully Proved
	- An Account of the Rise of a new INDIAN WAR [Anglo-Cherokee War] lately broke out in America
	- Treaty with the CHEROKEE INDIANS: an Account of the Negotiation between Governor Lyttleton and Attakullakulla (or the Little Carpenter), Deputee of the whole Cherokee Nation, and other Headmen and Warriors of that Nation
	- Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes at JAMAICA
	- A plate depicting "A new invented Sugar Mill in Jamaica"
	- A folding Representation of the Engagement between the British ship Monmouth and the French ship Foudroyant on the 28th Feb. 1758 (with some loss to the bottom margin, below the image)
	- A Map of Part of Germany, showing the situation of the Armies in the late Engagements
	- etc., etc.

Other plates, maps and features of interest include:
	- A Map of the Icy Sea [Arctic Ocean and Polar Circle]
	- A Chart of the Irish Sea
	- Four folding maps comprising a large General Map of Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia
	- A Fossil Skeleton (supposed to be an Alligator) found near Whitby, Yorkshire
	- Plan of the Streets in London near London Bridge [and] Plan for altering the same, to give a space for the Monument
	- Portraits of George III and Sir Edward Hawke
	- New Method of discovering the Longitude at Sea
	- An Account of the Voyages and Cruises of Capt. Walker, late Commander of a small Squadron of Privateers
	- Life of George Frederick Handel (in two parts)
	- Extensive coverage of the Trial of Lord George Sackville
	- Sermon delivered by a Lad in a Fit

	- 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 rubbed and worn, spine dried and sunned, joints cracked but the boards are secure; closed tears to three of the folding plates, occasional light toning and a few spots to the leaves, otherwise the contents are unusually clean and bright.