[Rarebooks] fa: 1767 Gentleman's Magazine: AMERICA + GREENLAND + PATAGONIAN GIANTS + MOGUL INDIA &c.

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Auction ending Sunday, October 9. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXXVII [37]. For the Year MDCCLXV [1767]. Printed at St. John's Gate for D. Henry, [1767]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early/period full calf, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [4] + 640 + [16] pp.; with numerous in-text charts, tables and woodcut illustrations, musical notation, plus 20 copper-engraved plates and maps, seven of which are folding (complete).

Topics and features of note:

AMERICA. Numerous articles on the American colonies, including:
		- A semi-monthly section, "American News," with letters, reports, dispatches, and other news from New York, Boston, Virginia ("A Bill has passed the assembly for erecting a statue to his Majesty, as an acknowledgment for repealing the Stamp-Act"), South Carolina, Philadelphia, etc.
		- Protest against repealing the American Stamp-Act.
		- The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin, relative to the Repeal of the American Stamp Act in 1767.
		- Resolutions of the Province of New-York.
		- An Exhortation to Gentlemen of small Fortunes to settle in East Florida.
		- An Extract from Mr. Wm. Bartram's Observations in a Journey up the River Savannah in Georgia.
		- An Account of Luk Taw, or Chinese Vetches, introduced into Georgia from China, by Mr. Samuel Bowen…
		- Observations on the American Locust (with woodcut illustrations).
		- Etc., etc.

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION:
		- An Account of GREENLAND, with a Description of the Manners, Customs, &c. of the Greenlanders (a multi-part article, with a plate); Natural History of Greenland.
		- PATAGONIA: An Epitome of all the Accounts hitherto published concerning a Race of People of a gigantic Stature, on and about the Eastern Coast of South America, between latitude 24 S. and the Straits of Magellan (illustrated with a plate); French Account of the Patagonians.
		- An Historical Account of the late Acquisitions of the East India Company in BENGAL, &c. (with a folding map of the MOGUL EMPIRE).
		- Civil and Military Transactions in the EAST-INDIES.
		- The Use of HADLEY'S QUADRANT in surveying Harbours, and piloting Ships into them (illustrated with a plate and woodcut).
		- An account of a VOYAGE round the World in the Dolphin by Commodore Byron.
		- Letters from Mr. Everard on the MINES OF IDRA.
		- Journey to the WRITTEN MOUNTAINS [SYRIA], accompanied by a folding plate depicting an Inscription on the Rocks of the Written Mountains near the Red Sea, transcribed by Edward Wortley Montagu.
		- An Essay for finding the LONGITUDE; A new Way of finding the Longitude.
		- Etc., etc.

An authentick Narrative of the many horrid Cruelties inflicted by Mrs. ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG upon her poor Apprentice Girls (illustrated with a plate from a "drawing made on the spot of the place of confinement"). One of the most notorious figures in the annals of 18th-century crime, Brownrigg was executed on Sept. 14.
		- Account and Drawings of AGGLESTON Stone Barrow, the Devil's Night-Cap (with a folding plate).
		- Other PLATES: a Draining Plow by Clarke (folding); A new invented Hygrometer by Ferguson; the Coudou, or African Deer (folding); the Lynx, or Syah-ghush; View of Mount Vesuvius; Funeral Procession of Edward Duke of York (folding); a View of Kew Gardens (folding); several Specimen Plates of Modern Artists; etc.
		- Observations on the Natural History of Elephants.
		- New Experiments on Putrefaction.
		- Carrots recommended for the Cure of Cancers.

Plus 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, much more.

Binding with some rubbing, scuffs and edge-wear, joints cracked at the top but holding firm; contents toned with occasional light browning, but generally very clean and sound, securely bound. Early armorial bookplate of John English Dolben, later bookplate of Marius Nielsen.