THE HISTORY OF THE WARS OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY CHARLES XII. King of Sweden; From his first Landing in Denmark, To His Return from Turkey to Pomerania. By a Scots Gentleman in the Sweedish Service.
Pp. [iv]+400, decorative headpiece and initial; cr. 8vo; early calf, spine with gilt lettered and decorated black leather titling labels between raised bands, boards decorated in blind panels with corner ornaments, lightly worn, joints starting; armorial bookplate of the Earl of Guilford, Wroxton Abby, on the upper pastedown, the later bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper free endpaper, the upper hinge cracked, blank preliminary leaf detached, minor printing fault near bottom fore-corner p. 181 (with slight loss of text), some foxing and browning, occasional slight soiling; printed for A. Bell, & others, London, 1715. First edition. ESTC T65952; Moore 322. *Complete, bur with the usual pagination/ signature errors: N3& N4 signed 'O3 & P4', the numbers 193-224 omitted from the pagination, page 132 misnumbered 133, and pages 380-381 misnumbered 376-377. Published anonymously but generally attributed to Defoe. Item #173556
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