1757 1ed Choctaw INDIANS GEORGIA & Carolina Colonies Americana London Magazine

1757 1ed Choctaw INDIANS GEORGIA & Carolina Colonies Americana London Magazine

A rare 1757 printing of the famed periodical, 'The London Magazine'. This volume includes notable topics such as:

· Biographical sketch of William Pitt

· Notes and journal descriptions of the Siege of Oswego during the French and Indian War

· Description of the Siege of Fort St Philip during the Seven Years' War

· Ship movement and positioning of French and English navies during the Seven Years War

· An account of British plantations in American, South Carolina

o Conspiracy of negro slaves uprising and murdering white owners

· Descriptions of battles lead by Frederick II of Prussia

· State of British colonies, confined spaces – need for expansion

· Descriptions of Choctaw and Creek Indians in Georgia, Indian warriors

Item number: #18697

Price: $750

periodical

The London Magazine, Vol. XXVI.

London: printed for Baldwin, 1757.

Details:

· Collation: Complete

o [2], 654 (i.e. 664), [24]

o 9 engraved plates (of 22), plus engraved frontispiece and title page

· Provenance:

o Handwritten – Homer Gardener

o Stamp – Iohn Betts

o Handwritten – Charles Townshend, Esq.

§ Possibly Charles Townshend (1725 –1767), a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the American Revolution.

· Language: English

· Binding: Leather; secure

· Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in (21cm x 13.5cm)

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