[Rarebooks] fa: 1741 Gentleman’s Magazine WAR OF JENKINS' EAR - AMERICA - MAP OF SWEDEN/GERMANY

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XI. For the Year MDCCXLI [1741]. London: Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate, [1741]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo (21 cm) in early boards and vellum spine; [4] + 706 + [16] pp.; woodcut map and illustrations, musical notation. Presumed first edition. Twelve monthly issues, with volume title, index and preface. Wear and soiling to the binding; front inner hinge cracked with the vellum pulling a bit from the spine, but holding; one page gathering pulling slightly from the gutter and protruding from the text block, but secure; bumping to bottom corner of the first few leaves; occasional spotting and mild browning to the first half of the text; otherwise quite clean and sound. Front paste-down with the engraved armorial bookplate of J. Comyns, Wood [Devon].

Contents include:
	  Numerous articles related to the WAR OF JENKINS' EAR and hostilities between England and Spain in the Americas: State of the War in America; List of the British Navy... with their Captains Stations and Admirals; Letters from the West-Indies; The Success of the Enemy's Privateers; The Taking of Cartagena; Admiral Vernon's Line of Battle; Ships taken from the Spaniards; etc., etc.
	  A woodcut MAP OF GERMANY, SWEDEN, NORWAY & DENMARK, with the "King of Sweden's Declaration of War, and his Reason for it."
	  A number of contributions by SAMUEL JOHNSON, including the preface; the Proceedings and Debates in the Senate of Lilliput (thinly disguised and far from literal transcriptions of Parliamentary debates); A Debate between the Committee of the House of Commons in 1657, and O. Cromwell...; A Dissertation on the Amazons; Panegyric on Dr Morin; etc.
	  "On Mr Nash's present of his own Picture at full Length fixt between the Bust's of Mr Pope, and Sir Is. Newton, in the Long Room at Bath" by Philip Dormer Stanhope, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
	  ALEXANDER POPE: "Sir Isaac Newton's epitaph", "On the Grotto at Twick'nham" and "Mr Pope on his Grotto"
	  "The Fop, Cock, and Diamond. A Fable", "The Patriot Prince. A Fable," and others by JOHN HAWKESWORTH
	  "On False Historians: A Satire" by RICHARD SAVAGE
	  The Roman Altar lately found at Cast Steeds [Castlesteads] in Cumberland, with other Curiosities there (illustrated)
	  Methodists in New England
	  Method of Curing a Consumption
	  Of Titles of Honour and an Order of Knighthood among the Hottentots
	  plus monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Account of Theatrical Performances, Register of Books published, Bills of Mortality, Obituaries, listing of Bankrupts; newspaper extracts; and much more...