74
Chamberlayne’s present state of Gr. Britain.
[
1755.
]
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 43, as above, but omitting the brackets.
CHAMBERLAYNE [
Edward].
Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia: or, The Present State of Great-Britain; with diverse Remarks upon the Ancient State thereof. By John Chamberlayne, Esq; The
Thirty-eighth Edition of the South Part, called England; and the
Seventeenth of the North Part, called Scotland . . . In Two Parts. With his Majesty’s Royal Privilege . . .
London: Printed for
S. Birt,
A. Millar [and others],
1755.
8vo. 410 leaves.
Lowndes I, page 406.
Grose 112.
Edward Chamberlayne, 1616-1703, English historical writer. This is the last edition of this work. The first edition, with the title
Angliae Notitiae . . .
was issued anonymously in 1669, and was followed by two other editions, with the author’s name, in the same year. Chamberlayne
issued the twentieth edition in 1702, and after his death his son John continued to edit the publication. John Chamberlayne died in 1723 and the work was then edited and published by the booksellers, until the last edition in 1755.
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Histoire de la puissance navale de l’Angleterre.
2. v.
12
mo.
777.-1762.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 12, as above.
[GUILHELM
de CLERMONT-LODÈVE, Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph, baron de sainte-croix].
Histoire des Progrès de la Puissance Navale de l’Angleterre, suivie d’Observations sur l’Acte de Navigation, & de Pieces justificatives.
Tome I [-II].
Yverdon,
1783.
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 196 leaves; vol. II, 183 leaves, folded printed table.
Barbier II, 762.
Quérard VIII, 388.
Not in Sabin.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with the price
4.16.
Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph Guilhelm de Clermont-Lodève, Baron de Sainte-Croix, 1746-1809, French antiquary, published the first edition of this work anonymously. The second edition, Paris, 1786, has
his name on the title-page. The second volume deals in part with American affairs.
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Entick’s history of the late war of 1755.
5. v.
8
vo.
1748.-1763.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 44, as above.
ENTICK,
John.
The General History of the Late War: Containing it’s Rise, Progress, and Event, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America . . .
Interspersed with the Characters of the able and disinterested Statesmen, to whose Wisdom and Integrity, and of the Heroes,
to whose Courage and Conduct, we are indebted for that Naval and Military Success, which is not to be equalled in the Annals
of this, or of any other Nation . . . Illustrated with A Variety of Heads, Plans, Maps, and Charts, Designed and Engraved
by the best Artists. Vol.
I [-V] . . . By the Rev. John Entick,
