The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Vol. XXIX. For the Year 1760.
London. Printed for R. Baldwin. 1760. thick8vo, 20.4cm, 714,[20]p., engraved frontis & title page vignette, 16 plates and maps, (missing 6), music, indexes, in contemporay full calf, real raised bands, dark crimson label, spine and boards edges worn, spine split and re-glued, upper board loose, private library perforation stamp on the title page, text sound and clean, as is. (Ds1). Item #40578
Wanting the 6 plates relating to North America: Quebec (x2), Oswego, Halifax, Montreal, Cherokees. - Covers the last year of the Seven Years' War including articles on the fall of Quebec and the battles of Minden and Plassey. Of particular interest are a biography of Handel, the observations on a new comet and the plans for the building of Blackfriars' Bridge (with plate). The plates include: Plan of the Battle of Plassey. Fought 23rd June, 1757, by Col. Rob. Clive (colour highlights) / A New and Accurate Map of Bengal.... / Design of New Bridge to be built from Black Friar's... / A New Map of the County of Montgomery... / View Town and Road of Fonchal, the Capital of Madera. / A Map of the Counties of Dresden to Breslaw... / A Plan of the City of Berlin. / A View of the City of Dresden. / etc.,
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