[Rarebooks] fa: 1755 Gentleman’s Magazine SHELLS/CONCHOLOGY (6 Plates) + COACHWHIP SNAKE (Color) &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Monday, November 11. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

http://tinyurl.com/lr33zvt

Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXV [25]. For the Year MDCCLV [1755]. London: Printed for D. Henry and R. Cave at St. John's Gate, [1755]. Presumed first edition. Eight monthly issues, plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Disbound, with the text block neatly separated into the monthly issues; lacking May, July, November and December issues; old binding leather on the spines; contents toned with occasional browning and offsetting; a few scattered spots, but generally quite clean. With in-text charts and tables, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, musical notation, plus 19 copper-engraved plates, three of which are folding.

With SIX ENGRAVED PLATES OF SHELLS (one folding). accompanied by "A Brief Conchological Dictionary" and a multi-part article, "Natural History of Shells" (lacking the Nov. part). This is the first installment of a series of engravings of shells that ran intermittently in the magazine through the year 1759.

Other PLATES (with accompanying text) include:
	  THE COACH-WHIP SNAKE and a plant, the Viscous Lychnis, or Catchfly. A rare instance in the magazine of a hand-colored engraving.
	  A small STATUE, OR IMAGE, representing a Man on one side and a Woman on the other; brought from Smyrna (folding).
	  Mungo Murray's ARMILLARY TRIGONOMETER.
	  John Smeaton's New PYROMETER.
	  A PLAN OF THE INTENDED NEW ROAD from Paddington to Islington, in Middlesex (folding; torn and worn at the center fold).
	  Several miscellaneous plates and engravings of noblemen's monuments.
	  Plus WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS of: An improved Barometer; A Machine for making Indigo; A Furnace and Machines for making Potash; etc.