[Rarebooks] fa: 1762 Gentleman's Magazine: WEST INDIES Jamaica HAVANA Gibraltar NORTH AMERICA &c.

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Auction ending Sunday, October 23. 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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Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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, 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] + 633 +[17] pp.; with 13 copper-engraved maps and plates, nine of which are folding.

The maps, plates and other features of note include:
	- A folding Map of the BRITISH EMPIRE IN NORTH AMERICA as settled by the Preliminaries in 1762.
	- A folding Map of the WEST INDIES
	- A Map of the Island of JAMAICA
	- A Plan of the City and Harbour of HAVANNAH [Havana], as well as a folding Plan of the Siege of Havannah
	- Extensive coverage of the Seven Years' War in the West Indies and America: The Importance of Martinico [MARTINIQUE] and the Spanish Islands in the West Indies; Proceedings of the Forces against Martinico; Articles of Capitulation of the Citadel of Fort Royal; Account of the Surrender of Fort St. Pierre; The City of London's Address on the taking of Martinico; A Description of the Havannah; Letter from Admiral Pocock at the Havannah; Account of the taking of the Havannah, Capitulation of the Town, Account of the Cannon, &c. taken, Killed and Wounded; An Engineer's Journal of the Siege; A Vew of the West-Indian and North-American Trades; etc. etc.
	- A folding Plan of the Town and Fortifications of GIBRALTAR
	- A folding "large and correct" Map of PORTUGAL
	- A (tinted) Representation of the Heart of his late Majesty GEORGE II, accompanied by Dr. Nicholls's Observations on the Death of his late Majesty (from an aortic dissection)
	- A Curious representation of the HEMLOCK PLANT (folding), accompanied by Dr. Storck's Supplement to his Treatises on the Virtues of Hemlock, and Direction and Cautions in administering Hemlock
	- A folding Elevation of a new Prison for the reception of Felons, at NEWGATE
	- The COCK LANE GHOST: An Account of the Detection of the Imposture in Cock-Lane; The Notion of Ghosts and Spirits refuted
	- 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.

Lacking two of the four contiguous folding maps of part of Silesia, else complete. Binding with some rubbing and browning, bottom corners bumped; browning and light wear to the untrimmed edges of the text block, mild toning and occasional offsetting to the text leaves and plates, a few scattered 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).