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320pp. 8vo. Original gilt decorated cloth in wearing protective slipcase. Numerous b/w plates. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This Folio Society edition of The Siege of Quebec and the Campaigns in North America 1757â"1760 is presented in its slipcase, offering a detailed and compelling account of the climactic years of the Seven Yearsâ War in North America. Drawing on contemporary reports and military records, the narrative follows the strategic manoeuvres, key engagements and personalitiesâ"British, French and Indigenousâ"that shaped the struggle for control of Canada, culminating in the pivotal siege and fall of Quebec. The Folio production features clear typography and an attractive binding, making this a substantial and collectible volume for readers of military history and Folio Society enthusiasts.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. London, The Folio Society, 1976 (first thus). Octavo, 320 pages with 7 maps plus 16 pages of plates and endpaper maps. Gilt-decorated red cloth; a fine copy lacking the slipcase. Edited, and with an introduction, by Brian Connell.

Illus., maps, index; 319pp. orig. red cloth gilt.

319, (1) S. Orig.-Leinenband in Orig.-Schuber. - Schuber etwas berieben; Überzugpapier des Schubers an den Kanten aufgeplatzt. Ansonsten jedoch sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen sauber.

8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, gilt back, dark top, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.

1976, , 319, Hardcover (gebunden), 8°, ., Englisch /mit Schuber / Buchrücken verblichen, Einband mit Goldprägung, Vorsatzblaetter: leicht gebräunt, Titelblatt: leicht gebräunt, Seiten: leicht gebräunt, Buchrücken: leicht bestoßen.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to., The First Edition, in Two Volumes, ix, (1) (6), 405, (1), errata & 465,[1]pp., 2 engraved frontis portraits (Amherst & Wolfe), large engraved folding map, engraved vignette headpiece on dedication page, tables throughout text, list of subscribers with their locations, in contemporary tree calf boards, (expertly restored), re-backed in tan brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, double green and red crushed morocco labels, gilt titles, engraved donation library armorial bookplates, new free flies in both volumes, small donation date stamp dated 1883 on the verso of both title pages, small ink spot of the corner of frontis in volume one, p323 of vol. II erroneously numbered 223., text is clean and sound, an attractive antique copy in very good to fine condition. (cgc) Notable with engraved portraits of Amherst and Wolfe and with folding map by Thomas Kitchin, indicating the British lands in North America following the treaty of 1763. T.P.L. 323. Lande 486. JCB J 680. Gagnon 1-51880. Streeter . Vlach 417. Howes K-222. Sabin 38164. DCB- IV, 415-16. "His journal is one of the most accurate and detailed accounts available on the siege of Louisburg and Quebec; " Lande 486," Sabin 38164." "A very valuable collection of materials towards a history of our late war, and conquests in America, as well as for a description and natural history of the country, in which this attentive and industrious author personally served; and the best original authority for the death of Wolfe and the conquest of Canada". The author gives a first-hand account of the battles, and the work is supplemented by copies of both British and French documents. …