[Rarebooks] fa: 1790 Gentleman’s Magazine FRENCH REVOLUTION + APPARATUS TO COMMUNICATE HEAT TO BODIES SEEMINGLY DEAD

[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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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXC [1790]. Volume LX [60]. Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols for David Henry, 1790. First edition. Six monthly issues (July-Dec.), plus the Supplement for the Year 1790, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [3], 582-1236 p. (ca. 657 pp. total). With 20 engraved plates, two of which are folding (complete). Wear and rubbing to the boards; spine rubbed and dried and just starting to split at the ends; toning and intermittent light browning to the leaves; occasional offsetting from and to the text and a few of the plates; a few small spots and stains; otherwise quite clean and sound, with the full complement of plates.

This volume with extensive contemporary coverage of the FRENCH REVOLUTION raging across the channel, including articles on: the Proceedings of the National Assembly; the opening of the States General; the soldiers rise at Nancy; resignation of M. Necker; Account of the Disturbances of Oct. 5, 6, 1789; the Debate on changing the National Colours; "The Destruction of the Bastille: An Irregular Ode" (a poem); etc., etc. There are also several pieces on BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, who died this year, including a Tribute of Homage paid to him at Paris; his Will; Account of his Family; as well a numerous other articles of American interest.

The 25 PLATES (each with accompanying text) include:
	  The Lancaster Humane Society's APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING HEAT TO BODIES APPARENTLY DEAD, invented by Mr. Harvey, surgeon of Manchester (clearly a forerunner of Dr. Victor von Frankenstein).
	  EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS, representing musical instruments (folding).
	  Ancient and antique KNIFE, FORK AND SPOON, etc. (folding).
	  VIEWS of the Cathedral and Council House at Salisbury; the Remains of Bermondsey Abbey; Dalston Hall, Cumberland; Clifford's Tower, York, in 1684; the Stamp Office, St. Michael's Church and St. Audoen's Church, Dublin; etc.
	  PORTRAITS of John Howard, Philanthropist (and penologist); Oliver Cromwell and his Autograph; Sir Phiiip Warwick and his Autograph; Sir Francis Drake (allegedly).
	  Numerous engravings of COINS, TOKENS, COUNTERS, and other antiquities; etc.

Other articles of interest include:
	  BALLOONING: inscription on a "monument erected on the spot where Rosier and Romain fell from the balloon, and were dashed to pieces."
	  The Use of studying antient COINS (by Samuel Pegge the Elder).
	  Remarks on the SLAVE TRADE, occasion'd by [James] Bruce's Travels.
	  ELECTRICITY recommended in the Palsy [and] recommended as the Test of Death.
	  The Cause of FAIRY RINGS.
	  Sketches of the Life of SOAME JENYNS.
	  The TRIAL OF THE INCENDIARIES [ARSONISTS] Edward Lowe and William Jobbins, "the most dangerous set of villains that ever entered into combination for the devastation of a great and populous city."
	  Observations on POPE AND DRYDEN.
	  Observations on a VETERINARY SCHOOL [and] Veterinary Hospital.
	  A Remedy for the Tape-worm.
	  The WEST INDIES certain Death to persons deranged in mind.
	  Remarks on the Tatler.
	  A poem by ANNA SEWARD: "Verses on the sudden Death of Mr. [Charles] Norris, Batchelor of Music, who died Sept. 3, 1790, at Himley, the Seat of Lord Dudley."
	  Plus parliamentary speeches and debates, poetry, theatrical register, bills of mortality, Obituaries of considerable Persons, with Biographical Anecdotes; etc., etc.