[Rarebooks] fa: GEORGIA COLONY + PRAGUE + SAMUEL JOHNSON &c. in 1742 Gentleman's Magazine

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auctions ending Sunday, February 23. 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,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XII [12]. For the Year MDCCXLIII [1742]. London: Printed for Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate, [1742]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Tall 8vo (21.5 cm), untrimmed in early calf-backed marbled boards; [4] + 699 + [17] pp.; with charts and tables, numerous woodcut diagrams, maps and illustrations, musical notation, plus one folding copper-engraved plate (complete)... 

The contents include:

	- An account of "The Spanish Invasion of GEORGIA" (with a small, early map of the Georgia sea islands: Sapola Island, Little St. Simons Island, Great St. Simons Island, Jeckyl Island, Cumberland Island, and Amelia Island)
	- Several contributions by SAMUEL JOHNSON, including: the Preface; "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput" (thinly disguised and far from literal transcriptions of Parliamentary debates); "Life of Dr. [Thomas] Sydenham"; "An Account of the Harleian Library"; "Life of Peter Burman"; "Additional Account of the Life of Barretier"; "Essay on DuHalde's Description of China"; etc. 
	- A large folding view and plan of PRAGUE (short tear to right edge).
	- A full-page woodcut map of ITALY and 2 full-page wood engravings of the "famous RUNIC OBELISK AT BEWCASTLE in Cumberland"
	- CRYPTOGRAPHIA DENUDATA: THE ART OF DECIPHERING deduced from Principles, and explained by Examples, in the German, Dutch, Latin, English, French, Italian, and Greek Languages. By David Arnold Conradus (a multi-part abridgment extending over several issues).
	- "Copy of a Paper given to Mr. Finch at Petersburg by Captain Elton, relating to the opening a Trade through RUSSIA TO PERSIA."
	- Several poems by JOHN HAWKESWORTH ("The Moral Alchymist... A Fable"; "The Miserable Glutton... A Fable"; "The Unhappy Debauchee, the Sequel to the Miserable Glutton"; etc.)
	- Description of Lord Cobham's Garden [at Stowe].
	- 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.