HISTOIRE DES PROGRES DE LA PUISSANCE NAVALE DE L'ANGLETERRE; Suivie d'Observations dur l'Acte de Navigation et des Pieces Justificatives (in two volumes)

Yverdon, 1783. First Edition. 12mo, 2ff, iv, xi, 371; 2ff, 362, with three tables, one folding. Bound in with the half-titles in contemporary calf, volume 1 worn at the top of the spine, a very good clean copy. See Cioranescu 59315. Sabin 75532. The naval history includes the Navigation Act which regulated maritime and commerical relations with England and her colonies as well as numerous passages relating to America: the exploits of Sir Francis Drake against the Spanish in the West Indies and South America, the struggles of the French and English over the Newfoundland fisheries and Hudson's Bay, the Seven Years' War and the conquest of Canada, and the Paris Treaty of 1763. (Inventory #: 53447)