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Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Millan's Universal Register of Court and City-Offices, Army and Navy &c. A very well preserved copy of this handsomely presented compendious pocket reference, this example as offered on the title page "bound 3s with an Almanack and Succession [of Colonels]"; Rider's British Merlin present bound immediately after the engraved regimental and militia lists, the succession at the rear. In it's time an expensive little volume probably costing the equivalent of £300 in real terms. As well as the indispensable almanac/calendar, and the advertised military reference, the contents also include an alphabetical listing of the peers, the commons alphabetically and by constituency, occupants of offices of state, the courts, the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London, physicians licensed to practise in London, the rates of watermen and a list of the "West India Governors and Agents &c." which includes North America with Benjamin Franklin appearing as Agent for the Province of Pensilvania [sic]. Attractive and highly informative, an excellent copy.

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