[Rarebooks] fa: 1789 Gentleman's Magazine FRENCH REVOLUTION + BENJAMIN FRANKLIN + TYCHO BRAHE &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume LIX [59]. For the Year MDCCLXXXIX [1789]. Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols, for David Henry, 1789. Six monthly issues (July-Dec.) plus the Supplement. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards; [2], 581-1218, [18] p.; with 18 copper-engraved plates, three of which are folding (complete).

With extensive contemporary coverage of the FRENCH REVOLUTION, including a monthly feature, "Accurate Statement of the late Revolution in France," which is an almost day-by-day account of events unfolding across the Channel ("On the other side of the town, the Bastile[sic] was [surrounded] by 10 or 12,000 citizens…, and on the Governor's holding out a white flag, and opening one of the gates, a party of young citizens, with some soldiers, incautiously entered…"; "In our last we gave an account of the King's removal from Versailles to the old palace of the Tuilleries…"; etc.) Related articles include: Substance of M. Necker's Memorial on the Scarcity in France, presented to the National Assembly; Particulars of the Sale of Dunkirk to the French; etc.

Other notable and/or curious features include:
	- An American Passport from Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin for Captain Cook (includes the text of Franklin's letter urging American warships to grant Cook's vessels free passage).
	- Causes and Effects of the Trade Winds; Dr. Franklin's Account of the variable Winds; Raynall's Description of the Hurricanes in the West Indies; Dr. Franklin's Observations on a North East Storm; etc.
	- Accurate Description of Fraser's new Carolina Grass (with a folding plate).
	- Intelligence from the East and West Indies, America, &c. (a monthly collection of news, including the naming of George Washington's first cabinet and Supreme Court: "Mr. Jefferson, Secretary of State; General Knox, Secretary at War.." etc.).
	- Columbus's Discovery of America questioned.
	- Description of Tycho Brahe's Observatory (with a plate).
	- Minutes of the Proceedings of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, on Settling the Regency (re. the madness of George III; in multiple parts over several issues).
	- An Enquiry as to the Author of Junius's Letters; Further Enquiry after the Author of Junius; Mr. Hollis supposed to be the Author of Junius's Letters; Who the Author of Junius's Letters?; etc.
	- Miss [Anna] Seward on the comparative Merits of Pope and Dryden; Mr. Weston's Answer to Miss Seward and M.F.; Mr. Weston's Vindication from the Strictures of Miss Seward; etc.
	- Remarks upon, and Additions to, the Life of Chatterton; List of Tracts published in the Rowleian Controversy.
	- Strictures on the absurd Custom of Duelling; Proposal for the Prevention of Duelling.
	- Experiments on forcing Inflammable Air from Coal Mines.
	- Directions to prevent Canine Madness by Ablution.
	- Other plates include: an ancient Crypt now used as a cellar to the Crown Inn, Rochester; the House in which Charles I signed the Treaty of Uxbridge; Dunkirk House; Kilpec Church; Old Mortar belonging to the Apothecaries of London; etc.
	- Plus parliamentary debates, poetry, monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Obituaries, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much more.