[Rarebooks] fa: STAMP ACT + BARBADOS + LIBRARY CO. OF PHILADELPHIA &c. in 1766 Gentleman's Magazine

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXXVI [36]. For the Year MDCCLXVI [1766]. London: Printed for D. Henry and R. Cave, at St. John's Gate, [1766]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + 628 + [16] pp.; with numerous in-text charts and tables, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, plus 15 copper-engraved plates and maps, two of which are folding.

As might be expected considering the year in which it was published, the volume contains a great deal of lively contemporary coverage of the goings-on in the AMERICAN COLONIES, including:
	- Considerations on the American Stamp-Act.
	- Debates on the American Stamp-Act.
	- Abstract of an Act for repealing the Stamp-Act.
	- A Summary of the Arguments against repealing the Stamp-Act.
	- A full Defence of the Colonies (a 3 1/2-page précis and review of The Crisis; or, a full Defence of the Colonies, in which it is incontestably proved, that the British Constitution has been flagrantly violated in the late Stamp Act).
	- Copy of a Letter from the American Merchants in London to their correspondents in Boston, on the Repeal of the Stamp-Act.
	- American Merchants Answer to London Merchants Advice.
	- Governor Bernard's Reply to the Boston Assembly (and, later:) Gov. Bernard's Speech to the Assembly at Massachussets-Bay [sic].
	- The History of a Scheme for Taxing the Colonies, on the Commencement of the French Encroachments on their back Settlements in America.
	- Resolutions and Proclamations: of the House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay; of His Majesty's Colony of Maryland; of the Lower House of Assembly of Maryland; of the General Assembly of New York (all printed in full).
	- The Temper and Genius of the American Indians [with] An Account of the Indian War (6 1/2 pp. over two issues).
	- Coalition of the American and West Indian Colonies.
	- Logan's Legacy to the City of Philadelphia (a letter from Benjamin Franklin's friend and colleague, the colonial bibliophile James Logan, describing the bequest of his book collection: "I have built a library room, &c., and endowed it for ever, with thirty-five pound sterling per annum for a librarian…" Logan's collection would become the cornerstone of the Library Company of Philadelphia.)
	- Etc., etc.

Other topics and features of note include:
	- A Plan of Bridgetown, in the Island of Barbadoes (accompanying "An Address in favour of the Sufferers at Barbadoes [Barbados]," concerning "the dreadful Fire of May 14, 1766").
	- An account of the Duke of Bridgewater's navigable Canal (accompanied by an engraved view and a map).
	- Plates of:
		- A Remarkable Sea-Monster, or non-descript Fish.
		- A Water Wheel, by Deparcieux.
		- An artificial Swan, with its mechanism displayed (folding; creased).
		- Remains of St. Peter's Church, Leadenhall-street.
		- New invented Stove Chimnies, by Montalembert (folding).
		- The great Chestnut Tree at Totsworth [and] Remains of an ancient Elm Tree at Stoke Gifford (two separate plates).
		- A new constructed Balance for sorting yarn or worsted, by Ludlam.
		- Machines for ascertaining the resistance of Solid Bodies in Fluid Mediums, by De Borda.
		- An artificial Magnet.
	- An Analysis of Mr. [John] Ray's Method of Botany (with a full-page table).
	- Account of Dr. Hasselquist's [Fredrik Hasselqvist] Travels in Egypt, etc. (multi-part article).
	- Narrative of the Sufferings of Capt. Harrison and his Crew (regarding the Peggy, "a sloop of New-York in North-America," whose crew was reduced to cannibalism after their vessel was dismasted in a storm).
	- Horology: Advantages arising from a new Position of the Fussee in common Watrches, by M. Le Roy (with a woodcut diagram); Answer to Mr. Cumming's Charge, publish'd in the Gazeteer ("The Editors of the Gentleman's Magazine are sorry to see some hasty remarks… of Alexander Cumming, in which they are charged with being Puffers and Trumpeters for M. Le Roy…"); Errors in Mr. Cumming's Elements of Clock-Work; etc.
	- A Summary of Mr. Hume's Account of his Dispute with M. Rousseau.
	- A newly discovered Power in Spiders (with a woodcut diagram).
	- On the fascinating Power of the Rattle-Snake; Case of a Boy killed by the Bite of a Snake; the Indian Method of a Cure.
	- Proposals for a female Government.
	- Conjecture concerning the real Name of Robin Hood.
	- And much more…