MEMOIRS OF RUSSIA, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND MILITARY, FROM THE YEAR MDCCXXVII, TO MDCCXLIV. A PERIOD COMPREHENDING MANY REMARKABLE EVENTS. IN PARTICULAR THE WARS OF RUSSIA WITH TURKEY AND SWEDEN. WITH A SUPPLEMENT, CONTAINING A SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF THE ST

by [Hume, David]: Manstein, General [Cristof Hermann]:

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Dublin: Printed for James Williams, 1770.. viii,424,[8]pp. Octavo. Recently bound in handsome three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Occasional modest tanning and faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, otherwise a very good copy. First Irish edition, and first edition in octavo, published in the same year as the London quarto edition. With a prefatory Advertisement composed by David Hume, who oversaw publication of the English text based on the French manuscript sent to him by George Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland. Editions in German and French appeared in 1771. Modestly uncommon: ESTC locates eleven copies, three of them in North America. ESTC N22032.

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