Books and Manuscripts

The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer…For the Year 1775
London: R. Baldwin, January-December, 1775. Volume XLIV. 8vo. 692, (16) pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates (including one folding plate, four folding maps, and one folding plate of sheet music). Contemporary three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, brown morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities heavily rubbed and worn, front and rear joints worn and starting, spine dry and splitting, loss to head of spine; all edges trimmed; pp. 9/10 starting; worming at top, pp. 183-232.

The London Magazine for the year 1775, containing numerous articles relating to the beginning of the American Revolution. Includes proceedings of the Annapolis Convention (p. 16); the Continental Congress's Address to the Inhabitants of Quebec (p. 17); The Petition to the King (pp. 69 and 455); A Provisional Act for Settling the Troubles in America… (p. 71); Edmund Burke's State of the Trade to the Colonies (p. 343); Return of the Officer's, Non-Commission Officers, and Privates, killed and wounded, of His Majesty's Troops…June 17, 1775 (The Battle of Bunker Hill), (p. 379); Lord North's conciliatory proposition (p. 510); Letters of General Gage and Washington (p. 519).