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Librería José Porrúa Turanzas 2020 Boston Virtual Book Fair

SEVEN YEARS WAR

8. ENTICK, John. The General History of the Late War; Containing it’s rise, progress,
and event, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. London, Edward and Charles Dilly,
1775. 5 volumes. 4to (205 x 132)mm. -I: (4), 495 pp., 4 portrits and 3 folding maps.
-II: 480 pp., 10 portraits. -III: 464 pp., 9 portraits and 2 folding mapa. -IV: 480 pp., 8
portraits, 2 folding maps. -V: 470, (34) pp., 10 portrits and one folding map. In total 41
portrits and 8 folding maps. Contemporary calf, spines richly glit. 2000 € / US$ $2,300
Third edition of this important history of the Seven Years’ War, including the French War
and the Indians in North America. The folding maps include a map of North America, a
map of the West Indies, a map of the East Indies, and a plan of the Siege of Quebec.
The work narrates the events that occurred between 1756 and 1763 to establish con-
trol over Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India mainly between
France and Great Britain. The war involved the vast majority of the great powers of the
time, having affected Europe, North America, Central America, the west coast of Africa,
India and the Philippines. It is considered the first large-scale war fought on several
continents, and the main conflict of a global nature prior to the Napoleonic Wars and the
two World Wars. Good copy in an attractive English binding, slightly worn head and foot.

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