[Rarebooks] fa: 1777 Gentleman's Magazine: WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE & BATTLE OF TRENTON + MAP OF PHILADELPHIA, &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLVII [47]. For the Year MDCCLXXVII [1777]. London: Printed at St. John's Gate, for D. Henry, [1777]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [4] + 642 + [14] pp.; with charts and tables, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, plus 14 copper-engraved plates and maps, eight of which are folding (complete).

With extensive contemporary coverage of the epochal events in this second year of the AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, including:
	- A folding map of PHILADELPHIA and Parts adjacent (short tear at the fold).
	- George Washington's own account of the crossing of the Delaware and the BATTLE OF TRENTON, in a letter to Congress.
	- The Affair at the Cedars authentically stated (American and British accounts of war crimes purportedly committed by the Iroquois on their American prisoners; with details of the "agreement made between Capt. Geo. Forster, of his Majesty's 8th regiment, and Mr. Benedict Arnold, who commanded the rebel army").
	- Proceedings in the House of Commons on the Declaration of the Commissioners to the Americans.
	- Address of the Clergy of New York to the King's Commissioners for restoring Peace.
	- Copy of [and] Proceedings on the American High Treason Bill.
	- A New Argument against American Resistance, from a Country Curate's Sermon on the Fast day.
	- Letter from Lord Howe to Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin [with] Dr. Franklin's Letter in Answer.
	- Letters between Lieut. Col. Walcott, General Washington and Gen. Howe relative to the Exchange of Prisoners.
	- Gen. Burgoyne's Proclamation.
	- Burgoyne's Account of the Taking of Ticonderoga.
	- Proceedings of the Army under Gen. Burgoyne from the Beginning of September till its Surrender in the 17th of Oct.
	- Account of Gen. Lincoln's Attack on Ticonderoga.
	- Gen. Burgoyne's Account of his Capitulation.
	- Minutes of the Council of War held on the Heights of Saratoga.
	- Difficulties in marching an Army through America.
	- Intercepted Letter from Gen. Washington to his Wife.
	- Plus semi-monthly Accounts of AMERICAN AFFAIRS, including: Conduct of the Hessians and English; Proclamation of General Washington (re. Americans who have sworn allegiance to Great Britain); Letters from Gen. Howe at New-York (re. the Battle of Princeton, etc.) and from Gov. Tryon in Long-Island; a Letter from Carolina; Gallant Actions in New Jersey and Connecticut; Address of the Inhabitants of Rhode Island to Lord Percy; Letters from Gen. Washington to the Congress on the Removal of the King's Troops from the Jerseys; etc., etc.

The volume also contains thirteen other MAPS & PLATES, with accompanying articles, including:
	- Plan and Profile of a remarkable CAVERN NEAR BESANÇON, in France (folding).
	- Four folding Plans of CANALS: from Chesterfield to the River Trent; from Stroud to the River Severn; from the Coalmines near Stourbridge to Stourton; and from the River Trent to Langley Bridge (one with wear to the fore-edge).
	- Two plates of BIRDS: the Hoopoe (folding) and the Cuculus Indicator, or Honey Guide.
	- Several plates of antiquities, antique paintings, inscriptions, bas-reliefs, etc.
	- View of the New, or Water, Tower at Chester.
	- Two plates of deformities (both with offsetting): Portrait of James Poro, with a substance growing out of his side; Portrait of Lazarus Coloredo, a Genoese, with a child growing out of his side.
	- Plus several woodcut illustrations, including: A Tin Machine found in the Ruins of the Fire in Portsmouth Dock-yard, supposed to have been placed there by the Incendiaries [i.e. arsonists].

Binding with rubbing and wear to the edges and spine ends, cracking to the joints but both boards are secure; light browning to the leaves with occasionally more pronounced browning and offsetting to the text and plates, a few small spots and stains, one folding canal plan with wear to the edge protruding from the text block, otherwise clean and sound, firmly bound.