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Gentleman's Magazine 1752 - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN & ELECTRICITY
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXII. For  
the Year MDCCLII [1752]. London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate,  
[1752]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement, volume title, indices  
and preface. Hardcover 8vo, period calf sympathetically rebacked with  
gilt-stamped leather spine; 612 + [20] pp.; numerous woodcut diagrams,  
illustrations and plans, charts and tables, musical notation, and  
sixteen engraved plates (some folding).
An important volume, containing several articles relating to BENJAMIN  
FRANKLIN and his experiments in electricity, including:
In the December issue: A New Method of extracting lightening [sic]  
from the clouds, by B. Franklin, Franklin's own letter from  
Philadelphia, dated October 19, 1752, describing his legendary  
experiment with the kite and the key. (Mild staining to part of the  
text, not affecting legibility.)
In the May issue: A new Hypothesis for explaining the Phenomena of  
Thunder, Lightning, and Rain. Being an Extract from B. Franklin's  
Experiments and Observations on Electricity... lately translated into  
French at Paris.
The above Hypothesis is in part confirmed by some Experiments lately  
made in France, as appears in the following Letter from Paris, May 26.
In the July issue: An Apparatus for demonstrating Franklin's new  
theory of thunder, demonstrated and described (with an accompanying  
illustration)
In the August issue: Franklin's theory further demonstrated at St.  
John's Gate.
In the October issue: On Mr. Franklin's principles of electricity.
Proposal for applying Mr. Franklin's electrical invention to the  
explosions frequent in mines, &c.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1753 - MAP OF PHILADELPHIA + PERU
	LOUISIANA - BIRDS - HYDROPHOBIA - w/ 22 PLATES
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXIII. For  
the Year MDCCLIII [1753]. London: Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate,  
[1753]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement, volume title, indices  
and preface. Hardcover 8vo, period calf sympathetically rebacked with  
gilt-stamped leather spine; 618 + [22] pp.; numerous charts and  
tables, woodcut diagrams, illustrations and plans, music notation, and  
22 engraved plates (some folding, two colored).
The twenty-two PLATES include:
A Map of PHILADELPHIA and parts adjacent (folding; long horizontal  
tear at center-right and a shorter one in top margin)
Map of the PORT OF CALLAO [Peru] and the South Sea, with the Adjacent  
Islands, Rocks & Coasts... (folding; toning and some soiling,  
particularly at the margins, crease to one corner)
Incas of Peru [actually, Spanish and native inhabitants of Perus,  
llamas, etc.] (folding; soiling to the edges, short tear bottom  
margin, creases from mis-folding)
A Map of the New Roads, &c. from Westminster Bridge (folding; some  
soiling, short closed tears to left and right extremities)
St. Philip's Church in CHARLESTOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA
The RATTLE SNAKE (colored)
Elevation of the Corn Factors' Exchange, London (folding)
The Great CYDER-PRESS
A View of the Grotto del Cane, Naples, accompanied by illustrations of  
a Spermaceti Whale and an "Egg Fish"
4 separate plates of BRIDGES: Llanroost Bridge, Wilton Bridge, Lone  
Bridge, bridges at Huntington and Hampton
Plus a number of full-page CUTS OF BIRDS from Catesby (and others?),  
Grosbeak, Baltimore bird, Blackcap Flycatcher, etc., several colored  
(now faded)