Description: THIS IS A VOLUME OF THE ANNUAL REGISTER, A LONG RUN OF WHICH I HAVE RECENTLY PURCHASED. ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE PUBLICATIONS OF THE 18TH CENTURY AND USED BY LEADING HISTORIANS AS CONTEMPORARY SOURCE MATERIAL FOR THE MANY MOMENTOUS EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED IN THAT ERA. The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature for the Year 1770 Published by Dodsley, London in 1774, 2ND EDITION. Octavo 256p + 256p. Contemporary full calf. The leather spine rubbed and worn, lacking labels. The boards are well attached and the joints are not cracked. Contents of this volume include the History of Europe, Russia, Turkey, Falkland Islands, War on the Danube, Count Panin, War in Georgia, Russian Exped to the Med, Greeks massacred at Patras, Plague at Constantinople and Poland, state of affairs in Ireland, trial of Thomas Preston, trial of Mungo Campbell for murder, a girl swallows three pins which discharge at her shoulder, Mount Vesuvius, rainfall oddities, climate, case of Rev Winder who was cured of disease by a lightning strike, letters from Voltaire, punishment of the knout, the origin of signs, poetry, oil found in North Carolina, the Boston massacre, dutes on tea/the Townshend acts, and much else besides.
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Location: Blackburn
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: LONDON
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Language: English
Fiction Subject: Classic Literature
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: WORLDWIDE
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
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Year Printed: 1774
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