Author: Urban, Sylvanus
Title: The Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. Volume XVII. For the Year Mdccxlvii
Description: London, Printed by Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate, 1747. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. Frontis, [2], 622, [18] pp. Illus. with 25 b/w plates, maps and plans, 9 of which are folding, 10 wood-cuts, and 5 musical scores, 8vo. Complete set of 12 issues with supplement. Much on the trial of Lord Lovat who participated in the Jacobite rising of 1745 against the Crown and was sentenced to death. He was beheaded on 9 April 1747, aged 80, on Tower Hill in London, the last man to be executed in this manner; state of the Spanish commerce in America; A description of Ireland, description of a rhinosaurus; lists of ships taken; letter of a Persian spy; articles and map on Siege of Bergen-op-zoom (1747) part of the war of the Austrian succession; Polly Baker from Connecticut prosecuted for the fifth time for having a child out of wedlock; Illustrations & Plates include: A Map of France; A Map of Italy; A View of Westminster Hall, and Plan of the same, London; A View of the City of Genoa; Scaling Ladders, A Hygrometer, A Larum, A Roman Coin of Posthumus, A Rhinoceros, The Horn of the Nar-whale; Portraits of William Prince of Orange and Anne his Consort; Portrait of William the Third of England, &c.; Plan of Maestricht and the adjacent Country; Machines for Sentries at Sieges, A Machine for clipping lofty Shrubs, A Hygroscope, Boy and Girl of the Foundling Hospital in their proper dresses, A Roman Coin of Constantine; Root of a Plant, Hemlock Water drop Wort, A Machine for winnowing Corn, Seal inscribed St. Margaret, A small Silver Coin (supposed Saxon); Map of Bergen-op-zoom and the Country adjacent; Hydraspis or Water-shield, a machine, by the help of which a person may walk on the water; Chimeras, copied from a work entitled "Gemme Antiche" published at Rome in 1700; Machines used at Sieges; A Locust; A Drenching-spoon, A Tube by which a person may drink in a recumbent posture, A large Fossil Tooth, A Mill for fanning Corn - used in Silesia, A Camelion dissected, An antique inscription (Sepulchral, in Messapian, or OElic characters); Map of Caudebeck Fells and the Black-lead Mines, Cumberland; A cheap Water-engine; A gold Medal with two portraits - John Tillotson, Abp. of Canterbury, James Oglethorpe, esq. N.B.This medal was proposed by the Editors of the Magazine as a Prize for the best Poem, entitled "The Christian Hero."; A Saxon gold Coin; A Seal, the Golden Bull of the Empire, The White Bear; Portrait of Arthur Onslow, esq. Speaker; View of the Church of St. John, Westminster. Woodcuts include: A Section of Mount Vesuvius; View of Mount Vesuvius at the time of the explosion. Pagination: frontis, [2], [2], 3-52, [2], 55-108, [2], 111-156, [2], 159-204, [2], 207-252, [2], 255-300, [2], 303-348, [2], 359-404 {skips 349-358}, [2], 407-451, [2], 455-499, [1], [2], 503-548, [2], 551-596, 597-622, [18] pp. "Cave began the Gentleman's Magazine in January 1731, thus giving birth to one of the major publishing forms of the modern era, the magazine. It began modestly as a digest of London newspapers and periodicals for country customers (an orientation signaled in Cave's editorial pseudonym, Sylvanus Urban), but it went on to prosper and survive until 1922." (ODNB). A fair ex-lib copy with pocket on front pastedown; a few unobtrusive stamps, detached boards, text block and spine split, spine and boards dry, chipped, and scuffed, paper label title on spine, detached free front end-paper, plates quite bright, one with small tear to inner margin, contents very good.
Keywords: Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Maps, , Military History, Law, Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Maps, Jacobite rising of 1745, Book Military History
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Title: The Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. Volume XVII. For the Year Mdccxlvii
Description: London, Printed by Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate, 1747. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. Frontis, [2], 622, [18] pp. Illus. with 25 b/w plates, maps and plans, 9 of which are folding, 10 wood-cuts, and 5 musical scores, 8vo. Complete set of 12 issues with supplement. Much on the trial of Lord Lovat who participated in the Jacobite rising of 1745 against the Crown and was sentenced to death. He was beheaded on 9 April 1747, aged 80, on Tower Hill in London, the last man to be executed in this manner; state of the Spanish commerce in America; A description of Ireland, description of a rhinosaurus; lists of ships taken; letter of a Persian spy; articles and map on Siege of Bergen-op-zoom (1747) part of the war of the Austrian succession; Polly Baker from Connecticut prosecuted for the fifth time for having a child out of wedlock; Illustrations & Plates include: A Map of France; A Map of Italy; A View of Westminster Hall, and Plan of the same, London; A View of the City of Genoa; Scaling Ladders, A Hygrometer, A Larum, A Roman Coin of Posthumus, A Rhinoceros, The Horn of the Nar-whale; Portraits of William Prince of Orange and Anne his Consort; Portrait of William the Third of England, &c.; Plan of Maestricht and the adjacent Country; Machines for Sentries at Sieges, A Machine for clipping lofty Shrubs, A Hygroscope, Boy and Girl of the Foundling Hospital in their proper dresses, A Roman Coin of Constantine; Root of a Plant, Hemlock Water drop Wort, A Machine for winnowing Corn, Seal inscribed St. Margaret, A small Silver Coin (supposed Saxon); Map of Bergen-op-zoom and the Country adjacent; Hydraspis or Water-shield, a machine, by the help of which a person may walk on the water; Chimeras, copied from a work entitled "Gemme Antiche" published at Rome in 1700; Machines used at Sieges; A Locust; A Drenching-spoon, A Tube by which a person may drink in a recumbent posture, A large Fossil Tooth, A Mill for fanning Corn - used in Silesia, A Camelion dissected, An antique inscription (Sepulchral, in Messapian, or OElic characters); Map of Caudebeck Fells and the Black-lead Mines, Cumberland; A cheap Water-engine; A gold Medal with two portraits - John Tillotson, Abp. of Canterbury, James Oglethorpe, esq. N.B.This medal was proposed by the Editors of the Magazine as a Prize for the best Poem, entitled "The Christian Hero."; A Saxon gold Coin; A Seal, the Golden Bull of the Empire, The White Bear; Portrait of Arthur Onslow, esq. Speaker; View of the Church of St. John, Westminster. Woodcuts include: A Section of Mount Vesuvius; View of Mount Vesuvius at the time of the explosion. Pagination: frontis, [2], [2], 3-52, [2], 55-108, [2], 111-156, [2], 159-204, [2], 207-252, [2], 255-300, [2], 303-348, [2], 359-404 {skips 349-358}, [2], 407-451, [2], 455-499, [1], [2], 503-548, [2], 551-596, 597-622, [18] pp. "Cave began the Gentleman's Magazine in January 1731, thus giving birth to one of the major publishing forms of the modern era, the magazine. It began modestly as a digest of London newspapers and periodicals for country customers (an orientation signaled in Cave's editorial pseudonym, Sylvanus Urban), but it went on to prosper and survive until 1922." (ODNB). A fair ex-lib copy with pocket on front pastedown; a few unobtrusive stamps, detached boards, text block and spine split, spine and boards dry, chipped, and scuffed, paper label title on spine, detached free front end-paper, plates quite bright, one with small tear to inner margin, contents very good.
Keywords: Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Maps, , Military History, Law, Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Maps, Jacobite rising of 1745, Book Military History
Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 40166
- Book number: 40166
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