Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 212

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PERIODICALS.) Issue of the American Magazine on Louisbourg. Pages [241]-288. 8vo, disbound, lacking wrappers; minor dampstaining. [Boston], June 1746

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Articles include a letter on the 1712 expedition to Canada, "The Pernicious Effects of Drunkenness," "Surprizing Effects of Musick," speeches from the Siege of Louisbourg, and more. "The fifth American periodical and the first of a nonreligious nature to be published over a period of greater than a year"--Lomazow 3a.