[Rarebooks] fa: 1739 Gentleman's Magazine - First vol. w/ FOLDING MAPS (Ukraine, Crimea) + HERMAN BOERHAAVE &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume IX. For the Year MDCCXXXIX [1739]. London: Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate, [1739]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo (21 cm) bound in early half calf and marbled boards; 698 + [18] pp.; with in-text tables, map and illustrations, musical notation, plus two engraved folding maps (complete). Binding with wear and scuffing, some loss to the spine ends; title-page trimmed close at the top, losing the word "The"; unobtrusive worming to the gutter margin of the first 20 leaves or so; intermittent toning and occasional light spotting and soiling; otherwise quite clean and sound, securely bound. Front paste-down with the engraved armorial bookplate of J. Comyns, Wood [Devon].

An important year for the Gentleman's Magazine, the first to include the handsomely-printed folding maps for which it became famous. Two of these folding maps are present, as called for:

	  THE CRIMEA: An Exact Map of the Crim, Part of Lesser Tartary, the Sea of Asoph, and the adjacent Country of the Kuban Tartars; as laid down by the Czarina's Geographers, exhibiting the March of the Russian Armies against the Crim Tartars, in the War begun with the Turks 1736, and continued the present Year 1739. Unusual: the only example we've found in any volume of the magazine of a large, folding wood-engraved map. (Small touch of worming to the upper-right corner, else very clean and crisp).
	  THE UKRAINE & TURKEY between the Dneiper and Don Rivers, showing The old Limits between the Russian and Turkish Empires; engraved by Emanuel Bowen, one of the leading cartographers of the day, Royal Mapmaker to both George II of England and Louis XV of France. (Browning and wear to the fore-edge, two closed tears, some creases from mis-folding.)
	  There is also an in-text MAP OF THE COAST OF EUROPE from the Lizard to Gibraltar.
Other notable features include:

	  A Life and Character of HERMAN BOERHAAVE (12 pp. over several issues).
	  The Life of MRS. ELIZABETH ROWE (continued over three issues). Also present are several poetic tributes to her memory, including one ("On the Death of Mrs. Rowe") signed by ELIZABETH CARTER.
	  Poetry by ALEXANDER POPE: Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham; To Mrs. B— on her Birth-day; On lying in the Earl of Rochester's Bed; etc.
	  The Surprising Case of MARTIN GUERRE (9 pp. over two issues).
	  Debates in the Senate of Lilliput (thinly disguised and far from literal transcriptions of Parliamentary debates).
	  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.