The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1781

339; 207. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8. 8vo. Original quarter-leather, marbled boards. Paginated in two separate sections, chapters include History of Europe; Chronicle; State Papers; Characters; Natural History; Useful Projects; Antiquities; Miscellaneous Essays; Poetry; Account of Books for 1781. Topics discussed include Indians of Porto de la Trinidad; John Law and the 1717 Mississippi Scheme; poet Lope de Vega; natural history of the Cape of Good Hope; Priestley's Experiments in Natural Philosophy; the island of Corsica; Small-pox inoculation; declaration of war against Holland; etc.