[Rarebooks] fa: 1761 Gentleman's Magazine: SEVEN YEARS' WAR - CORONATION OF GEORGE III - AMERICA

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXXI [31]. For the Year MDCCLXI [1761]. London: Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, [1761]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Tall 8vo (23 cm), untrimmed, in original(?) plain blue boards backed in vellum, early ink title to the spine; [4] + 637 + [17] pp.; with 17 engraved maps and plates, nine of which are folding (complete, plus one more map than is called for in the list of plates).

With much on the SEVEN YEARS' WAR (French and Indian War), including:
	- A large folding MAP of HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS IN GERMANY, in which may be traced the motions of the Allied and French armies, during the whole Year.
	- Conquests in North America and East Indies.
	- Fertility of the Countries about the Mississippi.
	- The Importance of Louisiana demonstrated.
	- Indigo Manufactory at South Carolina.
	- Mr. Vaudreuill's Letter on the Limits of Canada.
	- War on the Continent expensive and ruinous.
	- A MAP OF BELL'ISLE [Belle Île, France], with accompanying articles: Account of the first Attempt on Belle-isle; Capitulation of the Citadel of Belle-Isle; etc.
	- Description of a terrible Shipwreck by a Tornado [from] An Account of the War in India, by Richard Owen Cambridge.
	- Commodore James's Expedition against Tulagee Angria, accompanied by an engraved VIEW OF THE ATTACK OF SEVERNDROOG in the East Indies.
	- Account of the History of the War in India.
	- Admiral Stevens's Account of the Taking of Pondicherry.
	- An Engagement between the Bellona and Courageux.
	- Marshall Broglio's Account of the late Battle… at the Village of Filingshausen [Willingshausen].
	- Account of the Negociation between France and England.
	- Letter of the Quakers on Pacific Measures.
	- Etc., etc.

Other subjects and features of note include:
	- THE CORONATION OF GEORGE III: a folding plate of the Coronation Procession; a folding view of the Inside of the Guildhall as it appeared at the Entertainment of the Royal Family; a plate depicting the Royal  Vestments used; plus a description of the coronation, poems written to commemorate the event; etc.
	- Six FOLDING MAPS of parts of SAXONY.
	- PLATES depicting: a Fossil Fish (the Muroena); an Apparatus for Brewing; a portable Furnace for trying Ore; a Quadruped, the Siyah-ghush (or Lynx); an Elevation and Section of Essex Bridge, Dublin.
	- DUELING: An Essay on Duelling, from the French of Father Gorville; Rousseau on Duelling.
	- History of the English Stage (a lengthy article in multiple parts).
	- Narrative of the Loss of the Litchfield on the Coast of Africa… and also of the barbarous Manners of the Moorish People...
	- Of the Inventions for discovering the Longitude (with references to Mr. Harrison's clock and others).
	- MURDER: Some Account of the Trial of Willy Sutton (for the Murder of Ann Bell); Some Account of Theodore Gardelle, lately executed for the Murder of Anne King; Particulars of the life of MacNaughton, the Murderer of Miss Knox; etc.
	- Directions to Strangers how to avoid catching a Cold at London.
	- Cautions against the Immoderate Use of Snuff.

	- Plus monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Register of Books published, Bills of Mortality, Obituaries, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.

Binding with some rubbing and staining, wear to the corners; browning and light wear to the untrimmed edges of the text block, toning and occasional mild browning to the text leaves and plates, a few occasional small spots and touches of soiling, else clean and sound, firmly bound. Front paste-down with the handsome engraved bookplate of Marius Nielsen (by Johannes Britze).