[Rarebooks] fa: 1747 Gentleman's Magazine • GENOA • VESUVIUS • ELECTRICITY • TRIAL OF LORD LOVAT &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XVII. For the Year MDCCXLVII [1747]. London: Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate, [1747]. Twelve monthly issues, plus supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Tall, thick 8vo (22.5 cm), untrimmed in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + 622 + [18] pp.; with numerous charts and tables, in-text diagrams, illustrations and plans, musical notation, plus 17 copper-engraved plates and maps, seven of which are folding (some bound out of order).

Topics and features of note include:
- Folding maps of: ITALY; BREDA and the adjacent Country; BERGEN-OP-ZOOM and the adjacent Country (with two tears); MAESTRICHT and the Adjacent Villages where the Battle was fought June 23.
- A folding VIEW OF GENOA; with several related articles: A particular Account of the Insurrection in Genoa; Affairs of Genoa; Historical Account of Genoa; etc.
- Two folding woodcut views of MOUNT VESUVIUS, with an accompanying article.
- WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION: lists of Ships taken by and from the French, Spanish, and English; Account of the Action at Sea on May 3; Captain Saunder's Bravery in the Yarmouth; French Account of the Action at Sea; French charged with barbarous Cruelty; Peace not at present Desirable; etc. etc.
- ELECTRICITY. Several articles on the subject published five years before Benjamin Franklin and his kite, including: Experiments in Electricity; Electrical Experiments proposed; Electrical Problems; Electrical Problems answer'd; Electricity whence, and how applicable; Description of some new Electrical Machines (with a woodcut diagram); etc.
- Description of a Ship to go under Water [diving bell], accompanied by a woodcut diagram.
- Extensive coverage of the TRIAL OF LORD LOVAT, accompanied by a folding VIEW AND PLAN OF WESTMINSTER HALL. (Defeated and captured at the Battle of Culloden in 1745, convicted of treason, Lovat was the last man to be publicly beheaded in England.)
- Other PLATES include: a map of Caudebeck Fells and the Black-lead Mines; Church of St. John, Westminster; a "Hydraspis, or Water-shield, by the help of which a person may walk on water"; siege machinery; a hygroscope; portraits, coins, medals, fossils, etc.
- An Elogy and a Life of EDMOND HALLEY.
- A Description of a RHINOCEROS, with accompanying plate.
- Inconvenience of Hoop Petticoats.
- The Speech of Miss Polly Baker before a Court of Judicature in Connecticut near Boston in New-England; where she was prosecuted the fifth Time for having a bastard child: Which influenced the Court to dispense with her Punishment, and induced one of her Judges to marry her the next Day, by whom she has had fifteen Children.
- 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.

Binding with rubbing and wear, some loss to the leather at the spine ends, hinges cracked but both boards are secure; bound without one map (France); toning to the contents with occasional browning and scattered light spots, darkening and light wear to the untrimmed edges. Front paste-down with the engraved armorial bookplate of J. Comyns, Wood [Devon].