John SHEBBEARE

SHEBBEARE John
Le Peuple instruit; ou Les Alliances dans lesquelles les Ministres de la Grande-Bretagne ont engagé la Nation, & l’emploi qu’ils ont fait de ses Escadres & de ses Armées, depuis le commencement des troubles sur l’Ohio, jusqu’à la perte de Minorque, considérés dans une Quatrième Lettre au Peuple d’Angleterre
N. n., n. p. 1756, 9 x 16,3 cm, (2) xxiv, 212 pp., contemporary calf
First edition, rare.
Contemporary light brown polished calf. Spine in decorated compartments. Red morocco title-piece. Upper joint with narrow crack to head. A very good and fresh copy.
An important document on the history of Canada and the United

First edition, rare.
Modern half cherry red morocco binding. Confounding pastiche of a Restoration binding. Spine with false flat raised bands decorated with five blind tooled ornaments, gilt fillets; gilt roll at head and foot. Very fine copy.
Important document concerning the history of Canada and the United States, the work begins by examining the causes of the conflict between Great Britain and France concerning the Ohio territory. Indeed, in 1756, it was the beginning of the Seven Years' War, or Indian War, a war of conquest for legitimate occupation of territories; this war would spread from Virginia and Nova Scotia to the entire Great Lakes region of Canada, some Indians fou