A textually very nicely preserved example of an important Revolutionary War era popular publication with a significant quantity of content related to the ongoing hostilities as reported for the British audience. Includes first-hand reports of battles at Prince Town [Princeton], New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, etc., Perhaps most significantly, it retains the original fold-out map demonstrating the ongoing process of the War in America which fetches $600 - $800 by itself when extracted from the volume by map dealers.
Contents also cover Benjamin Franklin [with attending engraving], inoculation, the plague and smallpox, Habeus Corpus, Open-bellied Crocodile of the Ganges (with engraving), Sir William Howe, Lord George Germain, the rebels - colonists, Cornwallis, Raritan, Brunswick, New Jersey, Gen. Mercer, Trenton, Delaware River, Hessians, Gen. Mawhood, Stamp Act, Edmund Burke, New York, Peekskill, Philadelphia, Telemachus, Gen. Tryon, Danbury, Norwalk, Connecticut, Gen. Arnold, Ridgefield, Guy Carleton, Crown Point, Captain Cook content including his Recipe for Spruce-Beer, Newport, Rhode Island, Continental Congress, Voltaire, Hume, etc.
The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure Containing News Letters Debates Poetry Musick Biography History Geography Voyages Criticism Translations Philosophy Mathematicks Husbandry Gardening Cookery Chemistry Mechanicks Trade Navigation Architecture and Other Arts and Sciences, Which may render it Instructive and Entertaining to Gentry, Merchants, Farmers and Tradesman: to which occasionally with be added An Impartial Account of Books in Several Languages and of the State of Learning in Europe: Also of the Stage, New Operas, Plays and Oratorios. January to December Complete [2 in 1]. Vol. LX / LXI. London. John Hinton. 1777. 378 + 378pp.
A good + copy that has been rebound in buckram, very solid. Pages are generally bright with some light foxing and minor closed tears to folding plates, etc.,
