[Rarebooks] fa: 1794 Gentleman's Magazine: YELLOW FEVER IN PHILADELPHIA - FRENCH REVOLUTION &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. Volume LXIV [64]. For the Year MDCCXCIV [1794]. Part the First. London: Printed by John Nichols, for David Henry, 1794. Six monthly issues (Jan.-June). Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; iv + 584 + [12] pp.; with in-text tables and diagrams, plus all 18 copper-engraved plates called for.

Among the notable topics and features:
- Numerous articles related to REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE: Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Convention of France (a monthly feature); On the Guillotine; A Record of French Regicides recommended; Authentic Narration of the Evacuation of Toulon; The Revolution in France ascribed to Free-Masonry; Particulars of the late glorious Naval Victory (i.e., the Glorious First of June); etc.
- Significant articles on YELLOW FEVER: The Yellow Fever at Philadelphia (signed "Medicus Londinensis"); Yellow Fever at Philadelphia accounted for; From the Philadelphia Mail (re. the yellow fever epidemic); plus several other reports, letters, etc.
- Interesting News from America: semi-monthly dispatches and letters from Philadelphia, Georgia and elsewhere ("…in consequence of a meeting which I have had… with the Chiefs of the Creek Nation, peace, and good understanding, is again established between the United States and the said Nations…"; etc.).
- A New Year's Gift to Dr. Priestley on the Subject of the Generation of Air from Water (by Robert Harrington; 8 1/2 pp. over multiple issues); Reasons for Dr. Priestley's leaving this Country.
- Abstract of the Premiums offered by the Society, instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (7 pp.).
- Mr. Boswell and Miss Seward; Mr. Boswell's Reply to Miss Seward's Second Attack; Mr. Boswell and Miss Seward—the Controversy dismissed; Boswell vindicated; etc..
- An Original Letter from Mr. Gibbon to our Printer.
- The History of Elinour Rumming (illustrated by a woodcut of an ale house sign).
- A Proposal for rendering Admission into the Theatres, and other crowded Places of Public Amusements, perfectly safe and commodious. By the celebrated Captain Project, one of the Members of the Medico-Spectatorial Club.
- The PLATES include: St. Malo, France; Sir Philip Sidney's celebrated Oak Tree in Penshurst Park; Cowdray House; Shirland Church; Bletchley Church; the Queen's Head Public-house at Islington; monuments, artifacts, antiquities, etc.
- Plus parliamentary debates, monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Bills of Mortality, Obituaries, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much more.

Binding worn at the corners, spine leather rubbed and worn with loss at the spine ends, hinges cracked but both boards are secure; occasional mild browning to the leaves and plates, small bit of worming to the upper right margins of the first 100 leaves (not affecting any text); the last leaf of the index is lacking and the two index leaves before it have had their bottom halves torn away; otherwise complete and sound, securely bound.