[Rarebooks] fa: WEST FLORIDA & LOUISIANA + BOUGAINVILLE & TAHITI &c. in 1772 Gentleman's Magazine

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLII [42]. For the Year MDCCLXXII [1772]. London: Printed at St. John's Gate, for D. Henry, [1772]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + 632 + [16] pp.; with in-text charts and tables, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, plus 28 copper-engraved plates and maps, nine of which are folding, and a folding genealogical table (complete)...

With several features of American interest, including:
	- A folding MAP OF WEST FLORIDA, from Pensacola to the Mouth of the Iberville River [present day Bayou Manchac], along with a "Plan for a New Settlement." These accompany a two-page proposal, signed "J.P.", for a Settlement on the Mississippi near present-day Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Later issues in this same volume feature follow-up articles: "J.P.'s Plan for a Settlement on the Mississippi objected to" (by "W.R." of New Orleans) and "On Settling a new Colony on the Mississippi," a reply from J.P. to W.R.
	- A plate, with accompanying description, of two animals "peculiar to CALIFORNIA": the COYOTE (alternately called "Cayette" and "Cayote"), and "The TAYE, or Californian Goat." There are also plates depicting the Ptarmigan of Hudson's Bay and the Heron, or Soco, of America.
	- A Scheme for Propagating the Gospel among the present SAVAGE TRIBES IN THE BRITISH PART OF NORTH-AMERICA… ("It is well known, that there are many indigent Clergymen, who would gladly embark in so good a cause…").
	- A Description of the ESQUIMAUX INDIANS.
	- AMERICAN NEWS: semi-monthly dispatches from Charles-town, South Carolina, Boston, Rhode Island, etc.
	- A Mode of raising and paying the Church-Money in America [and] The Non-appointment of an American Bishop investigated.

Other features of note include:
	- BOUGAINVILLE & THE SOUTH PACIFIC: a plate showing Three Canoes of the South Sea Islands (Canoe of the isle of Navigators; Indian Canoe of the isle of Choiseul; Canoe of the isles of Taiti [Tahiti]), accompanied by Bougainville's description of "the Periagua's of Taiti, and the adjacent Islands." Elsewhere in the volume can be found additional translated excerpts from Bougainville's account of his voyages, including an Account of the Settlement of the Malouines (or Falkland Islands) by the French in 1763; Discoveries in M. de Bougainville's Voyage round the World; Account of a Taiti-man brought over by M. Bougainville.
	- Particulars of the Life of SIR ISAAC NEWTON, accompanied by a folding genealogy, printed on both sides.
	- A folding MAP OF POLAND, with its Appendages: shewing the late Partition of the Kingdom.
	- Five folding PLANS OF CANALS in England.
	- Several plates of ANIMALS, including the Francolin or Partridge; Collared Duck of India; Astracan Goose; the Nyl-ghau, a quadruped; an Ape; an Emu; the piscivourous Toucan; the Military Maccaw.
	- Other PLATES depicting: the Mosque in Kew Gardens; Rochester Cathedral; Edge House in Somersetshire; theatre tickets or tesserae theatreales from Herculaneum; two plates of plows (one folding); etc.
	- SLAVERY: Considerations on the late Determination in the Court of King's Bench on the Negro Cause [and] An Argument against Property in Slaves.
	- Particulars of the Proceedings… on the Trial of the HEARTS OF STEEL, in Dublin.
	- QUAKERISM defended against false Representation.
	- HOMICIDE: Relation of a remarkable Murder (of John Andrew Gordier in Guernsey); An authentic Account of the Murder of Miss Mary Jones, taken from the Trial of the Murderer at Glocester Asizzes, the 13th inst.; etc.
	- The real State of the Complaints of the Cabinet-Makers.
	- "A Lady in Tears, on the Loss of her Senegal Parrot," a poem.
	- Plus: poetry, book reviews, monthly Lists of Marriages, Deaths, Preferments, Bankrupts, &c., and much more.