[Rarebooks] fa: 1790 Gentleman's Magazine: FRENCH REVOLUTION + EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS, &c.

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Auction ending Sunday, November 6. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

https://tinyurl.com/yydvu8s6

Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


1790 Gentleman's Magazine: FRENCH REVOLUTION - EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS, &c. The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXC [1790]. Volume LX [60]. Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols for David Henry, and sold by Eliz. Newberry, 1790. Six monthly issues (July-December) plus the Supplement; [2], [581]-1216, [20] pp.; with 20 copper-engraved plates, three of which are folding (complete).

The plates include:
	- Apparatus for communicating Heat to Bodies apparently dead, accompanied by a description of the "very ingenious and useful apparatus... invented by Mr. Harvey, surgeon at Manchester..."
	- Egyptian Hieroglyphics (folding), accompanied by "A short Dissertation on the Antient Musical Instruments used in Egypt, or rather unharmonious Sounds."
	- Portraits of: John Howard, Esq. the Philanthropist; Sir Philip Warwick and Oliver Cromwell, with their Autographs; portrait at Mavesyn Ridware, supposed to be Sir Francis Drake.
	- Views of: the Cathedral at Salisbury; the Remains of Bermondsey Abbey; Dalston Hall, Cumberland [and] Iron Gate and other parts of the above building; three Antique Stones, called the Devil's Arrows, Yorkshire; Clifford's Tower, York, in 1684.
	- Plus numerous depictions of antiquities, oddities, coins, medals, tokens, etc.

Other notable and/or curious features include:
	- Extensive contemporary coverage of the ongoing FRENCH REVOLUTION, including Transactions of the National Assembly; Procession at the opening of the States General; semi-monthly Accurate Statements of the late Revolution in France; etc.
	- Public Libraries in London in the last Century
	- Sketches of the Life of Soame Jenyns, Esq.
	- The Messiah vindicated from impious Cavil
	- Means of destroying Insects, or preventing their Increase
	- Invention of Achromatic Glasses
	- The Character of the Quakers, by the late Mr. John Whitehurst
	- Distinction between the Art of Farriery and the Veterinary Science
	- Plan of a new Society for the Improvement of British Wool
	- A number of articles on Fairy Rings, including "Fairy Rings proved to proceed from Lightning"
	- Mr. Harwood's Experiments on Transfusion of Blood
	- History of Elizabeth Bentley, by herself [with an] "Ode to Content"
	- Plus monthly meteorological diaries, parliamentary proceedings, poetry, reviews and extracts of books recently published, obituaries, births, marriages, accounts of Foreign Affairs; and much, much more.

ALONG WITH:

Samuel Ayscough. ed.: A General Index to the First Fifty-Six Volumes of The Gentleman's Magazine, from its Commencement in the Year 1731, to the end of 1786... Volume the First: Containing an Index to the Essays, Dissertations, and Historical Passages. London: Printed by John Nichols for David Henry, and sold by Eliz. Newberry, 1789. Volume one (of two) only.