[Rarebooks] FA: Gentleman's Magazine 1741-43: Maps of AMERICA, De l'Isle's MAP OF "WESTERN SEA" & NORTHWEST PASSAGE, etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume X. For the  
Year MDCCXL [1740]. London: Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate,  
[1740]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement, volume title, indices  
and preface. Hardcover 8vo in period calf sympathetically rebacked  
with gilt-stamped leather spine...

With four folding MAP PLATES related to the AMERICAS (browning and/or  
staining to the fore-edge margins; other defects as noted):

An Accurate Map of the WEST INDIES, Exhibiting not only all the  
Islands possess'd by the English, French, Spaniards & Dutch, but also  
all the Towns and Settlements on the Continent of America adjacent  
thereto (32 x 40cm; splitting along two folds, slight loss to upper- 
left corner)
A New Map or Chart of the Western or Atlantic Ocean, with part of  
Europe, Africa & America: Showing the Course of the Galleons, Flota,  
&c. to and from the West Indies (40 x 30 cm; chips to the margins,  
splitting at one fold)
An Exact Draught [map] of the Castle of SAN LORENZO & Village & River  
of CHAGRE [Chagres, PANAMA] With the Situation of Adml. Vernon's Ships  
in the Attack of the Fort March 24, 1740...
A Plan of the City and Harbour of LA VERA CRUZ [MEXICO] and the Castle  
of SAN JUAN DE ULUA Being the Key of the Traffick and the principal  
Port of New Spain
Plus woodcut plans of PORTO BELLO, CARTAGENA (full-page), and HAVANA
Contents include:
Extensive coverage of the WAR OF JENKINS' EAR and hostilities between  
England and Spain in the Americas: Admiral Vernon's Account of the  
taking of Porto Bello, Strength of the Bermuda Islands, Hostilities of  
the Spaniards in Georgia, Insurrection of the Negroes in South  
Carolina, Advices from the West Indies, Gallant Action of some British  
Sailors, List of Men of War at Jamaica, Account of the Galleons,  
Flota, Flotilla, and Registry Ships imployed by the Spaniards in the  
West India Trade, etc., etc.


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXIV. For  
the Year MDCCLIV [1754]. London: Printed for D. Henry and R. Cave at  
St. John's Gate, [1754]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement,  
volume title, indices and preface. Hardcover 8vo, period calf  
sympathetically rebacked with gilt-stamped leather spine...

Notable for containing two important MAPS, both folding:
A General Map of the Discoveries of Admiral de Fonte & others by M.  
[Joseph-Nicolas] De l'Isle. Among other spectacular flights of fancy,  
De l'Isle depicts a vast "West Sea" north of California, as well as  
the mythical Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific. Other  
oddities include "De Fonte's Lake" (west of Hudson's Bay); a "Suppos'd  
great current of Water" plunging southward through Canada from a  
gargantuan "Lake Bernarda"; a huge island in the Atlantic east of  
Kamchatka; and a "Vast Tract of Land [in the Arctic] discovered in  
1722 to which the Tzutzy fled when they were pursued by the Russes who  
have not yet subdued them.". The voyages of Captains Tchirikow,  
Beering (Bering?), de Fuca, Bernarda and others are shown as well as  
those of the imaginary Admiral De Fonte. First published in Paris in  
1752, this is the first English printing. Ca. 8.25 x 10"; bound in  
upside-down; some creasing to one fold, short closed tear to upper- 
left margin.
A Map of the British American Plantations, extending from Boston in  
New England to Georgia; including all the back Settlements in the  
respective Provinces as far as the Mississipi [sic]. By Eman[uel]  
Bowen. Colonies, cities, towns, forts, outposts, French possessions,  
rivers, inlets, and other physical landmarks are depicted and named  
and the locations of Indian tribes are shown. The titlepiece in lower  
right is flanked by images of Native Americans. An important map, it  
greatly influenced British perceptions of the Colonies before the  
Treaty of 1763. Ca. 9.5 x 11"; some creasing and short (2 cm) tear to  
lower left edge.
The contents include:
"To BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Esq; of Philadelphia, on his Experiments and  
Discoveries in Electricity" (a poem which begins: "Let others muse on  
sublunary things, / The rise of empires and fall of kings; / Thine is  
the praise with bolder flight to soar, / And airy regions, yet  
untrack'd, explore...") etc.