[Rarebooks] fa: BATTLE OF RHODE ISLAND - MAPS of DELAWARE RIVER & ST. LUCIA, &c. in 1779 Gentleman's Magazine

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLIX [49]. For the Year MDCCLXXIX [1779]. London: Printed at St. John's Gate, for D. Henry, [1779]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + 649 + [15] pp.; with numerous in-text charts and tables, musical notation, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, plus 16 copper-engraved plates and maps, eleven of which are folding (complete).

An important volume of this mighty organ of the Enlightenment — the first and longest-running "magazine" in the modern sense — containing much relating to the AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, including:
	- A handsome folding View of the SIEGE OF RHODE ISLAND, 1778 (folding).
	- A folding Chart of DELAWARE BAY AND RIVER, as high as Philadelphia.
	- A folding Plan of the ISLAND OF ST. LUCIA, in the West Indies, representing the situation of the British and French Fleets, with the Attacks made in Dec. 1778.
	- The Treaty between France and America [and] Silas Deane's Letter to the Citizens of America [and] Francis Lightfoot Lee's Answer to Silas Deane's Letter, with Reply.
	- Extensive coverage of the trials of Admiral Keppel and Admiral Palliser, the so-called "Keppel-Palliser Affair."
	- Naval and Military Transactions in the West Indies (with accounts of the Battle of St. Lucia).
	- The Line of Battle, Aug. 5, 1779.
	- List of the British Fleet now in Commission [and] Frigates and Sloops in the Royal Navy [and] Authentic List of the French Navy.
	- Particulars of the Engagement of the Quebec Frigate, &c.
	- Major General Prevost's Journal of the Siege of Savannah.
	- Letter from Lieut. Gov. Bee of South Carolina to Patrick Henry, Esq., Governor of Virginia; Correspondence of Gen. Burgoyne with the Secretary of War; Gen. Campbell's Letter to Lord Germaine; Admiral Barrington's Letter to Mr Stephen; etc., etc.
	- Monthly sections, "American News" and "Historical Chronicle," that provide an almost day-by-day account of the war.
	- Monthly summaries of Parliamentary Debates regarding the Colonies.
	- And more...

Other topics and features of note include:
	- A handsome folding Map of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark (Channel Islands).
	- Folding plate of A new-invented Machine for steering Ships.
	- Folding plate of of Mr. Polhern's Balance for weighing Air and a Balance for weighing Fire.
	- A folding plate of The Sugar Cane in various states.
	- Elevation of the North Front [and] the Back of the North Front of Somerset House in the Strand, London (two folding plates).
	- A folding Plan of the Canal from Dublin to the River Shannon.
	- A Map of Solway Moss, in Cumberland.
	- Other plates of Etruscan antiquities, an aquatic Animal, a view of Mount St. Michael, a blue shark and flying fish.
	- Particulars of Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment by Lord Hertford at Elvetham in 1591 (with a full-page woodcut).
	- Monthly lists of births, deaths, bankrupts, murders, prices of grain, etc.
	- Etc., etc.