[Rarebooks] fa: 1772 Gentleman's Magazine MAP OF WEST FLORIDA + MISSISSIPPI + POLAND + TAHITI, &c.

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Auction ending Sunday, October 16. 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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Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLII [42]. For the Year MDCCLXXII [1772]. London: Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, [1772]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [4] + 632 + [16] pp.; with numerous in-text charts, tables and woodcut illustrations, plus 29 copper-engraved plates and maps, nine of of which are folding (complete).

Contains much relating to the AMERICAS, North & South, including:
	- A folding MAP OF PART OF WEST FLORIDA, from Pensacola to the Mouth of the Iberville River, with a View to show the proper Spot for a Settlement on the Mississippi (includes parts of present day Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), with a Plan for a New Settlement.
	- Several articles related to the above: Sketch for a SETTLEMENT ON THE MISSISSIPPI; J.P.'s Plan for a Settlement on the Mississippi objected to; On settling a new Colony on the Mississippi (J.P.'s reply).
	- PLATES depicting ANIMALS NATIVE TO THE AMERICAS: The Heron, or Soco, of America (browning); The Cayote [Coyote], or Fox of California; The Taye, or Californian Goat; The Ptarmigan of Hudson's Bay (offsetting); The piscivorous Toucan; The Military Macaw.
	- Account of the Settlement of the Malouines [Malvinas] (or FALKLAND ISLANDS) by the French, in 1763; and also of a Voyage round the World... in the Years 1766-7-8-9. By Lewis de Bougainville.
	- Description of the Wild Pine of Jamaica.
	- Mode of raising and paying the Church-Money in America; Non-appointment of an American Bishop investigated.
	- Etc.

Other features of note and topics of interest include:
	- A folding MAP OF POLAND, accompanied by a Sketch of the History and Present State of Poland, with a Map of the Country, exhibiting the Provinces of which it has been divested by the late Partition Treaty.
	- LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE: M. de Bougainville's Voyage round the World; Account of a Taiti-man [Tahitian] brought over by M. Bougainville; Bougainville's Delineation of the Periagua's of Taiti [Tahiti] and the adjacent islands (with an accompanying plate: Three Canoes of the South Sea Islands).
	- SLAVERY: Considerations on a late Determination in the Court of King's Bench on the Negro Cause; An Argument against Property in Slaves.
	- IRELAND: Particulars of the Proceedings on the King's Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer for the County of Dublin, on the Trial of the HEARTS OF STEEL.
	- Particulars of the Life of SIR ISAAC NEWTON, accompanied by a folding engraved pedigree (offsetting).
	- Additional PLATES & MAPS of: the Francolin, or Partridge; Elevation of a Mosque in Kew Gardens; Edge House in Somersetshire; the Double mould-board PLOW; six folding plans of CANALS; etc.
	- 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 rubbing and wear; contents toned with occasional browning and intermittent offsetting, the latter occasionally quite heavy; else clean and sound, firmly bound. Front paste-down with the handsome bookplate of Marius Nielsen (engraved by Johannes Britze).