[Rarebooks] fa: 1770 Gentleman’s Magazine BOSTON MASSACRE + MAPS of GREECE/TURKEY/FALKLAND ISLANDS &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.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XL [40]. For the Year MDCCLXIV [1770]. London: Printed at St. John's Gate, for D. Henry, [1770]. Presumed first edition. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + 627 + [13] pp.; with in-text charts and tables, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, musical notation, plus 19 copper-engraved plates, six of which are folding (complete, per the Complete List of the Plates of 1821). Bumps and rubbing to the boards and extremities, wear and creases to the spine; front and rear joints cracked but both boards are holding; toning and occasional spotting to the leaves, intermittent offsetting from and to the text affecting some of the plates.

Contains the following PLATES, with accompanying text:
	  FOLDING MAP of THE MOREA, THE ARCHIPELAGO, AND ANATOLIA, "the Seat of War in the Mediterranean."
	  FOLDING MAP of TURKEY IN EUROPE.
	  FOLDING PLAN of CONSTANTINOPLE with parts adjacent and the Canal of the Black Sea.
	  FOLDING MAP of the FALKLAND ISLANDS "from the latest Observations," with coastal silhouette (short tear in upper margin).
	  View of the BAY OF SANTERINI [SANTORINI] in the Archipelago, with a Volcano which lately appeared in the sea.
	  Elevation of the front of the NEW GAOL OF NEWGATE, London (folding).
	  View of one of the SEVEN CASTLES OF DALKEY, in Ireland (folding).
	  A MACHINE or REGISTER for REGULATING THE HEAT IN CHEMICAL PROCESSES invented by William Henry of Lancaster, PA (see note below).
	  Nine ASPECTS OF THE PLANET VENUS, during the late ingress of that Planet on the solar disk.
	  A MONKEY (gibbon).
	  View of the BRIDGE AT ASGARTH, on the River Eure, in Yorkshire.
	  View of the CAVERN NEAR STAINES in Scotland.
	  Various new invented INSTRUMENTS OF HUSBANDRY (drill plow, double plow, hand drill).
	  Two FOSSILS OF SHELLS in the shape of horns.
	  PORTRAITS of William Pitt the Elder and Charles, first earl Camden.
	  Plus woodcut illustrations, including A NEW PLAN OF AN AMERICAN COUNTRY TOWN.

Other features of note include:
	  THE BOSTON MASSACRE: with several detailed contemporary accounts of the "Tumult" of March 5, 1770, and its aftermath, including, in the April issue, the complete text of the Report of the Committee of the Town of Boston signed with the names of JOHN HANCOCK, SAM. ADAMS, et al, as well as The case of Capt. Preston, here epitomized, [which] will serve to shew the other side of the question; in the August issue, an Authentic Account of American Affairs, in Boston as well as South Carolina and Jamaica, and American disputes shewn in a new light (re. taxation without representation); and in the December issue, An Account of the Trial of Capt. Preston, at Boston in New-England, appearing as "Lawyers for the prisoner, Mr. Auchmuty and Mr. JOHN ADAMS."
	  Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, accompanied by a PLATE, describing William Henry's "Self-Moving or Sentinel Register" to regulate the flue of a furnace. Henry, a former gunsmith and armorer, became a noted engineer and inventor and a leading light in Philadelphia intellectual circles (he was patron to the artist Benjamin West). During the American Revolution he provided invaluable material assistance to George Washington and the Continental Army.
	  An Account of the Marquis de Courtanvaux's Voyage… to make Trial of several Instruments relating to the Longitude.
	  Plus: poetry, book reviews, monthly Lists of Marriages, Deaths, Preferments, Bankrupts, &c., and much more.