[Rarebooks] fa: 1786 Gentleman's Magazine: FLYING SHIP (BALLOON) - JOHNSON & BOSWELL, &c.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. Volume LVI [56]. For the Year MDCCLXXXVI [1786]. Part the First. London: Printed by John Nichols for David Henry, 1786. Six monthly issues (January-June), plus an index. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; iv, 531, [15] pp.; with 12 copper-engraved plates, eight of which are folding (complete).

The PLATES include: a View of the Ruins of the Chapel of St. Rule, at St. Andrews, Scotland; Internal View of the Caverns near Nottingham; the Barberini, or Portland Vase; a Flying-Ship or Air Balloon invented in 1709 at the Brasils; Antient Painting in 16 compartments [depicting] the sufferings of Henry VI contrasted with those of Job; Cathedral Church of Seez, in Normandy; an Ice-boat used in Holland; Julian's Bower, a Maze at Aukborough in Lincolnshire; plus miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, coins, inscriptions, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- A Description of a Flying Ship [or Balloon] invented in 1709
	- The true Site of Ophir accurately determined
	- Original Correspondence from Russia--Natural History
	- Strictures on Joseph Priestley
	- Historical Picture of Henry VI and Job explained
	- Hints to Persons travelling into France
	- A Vindication of Dr. Johnson and Mr. Boswell, by "Anti-Stiletto"
	- Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Character as given by his Biographers [by Anna Seward]
	- Dr. Johnson's Opinion of Persons and Books
	- "Dr. Johnson's Ghost," [a poem] by a Lady
	- Remarks on the Biographers of Johnson
	- Reply to the Defender of Boswell's Journal
	- Battledore for Boswell's Shuttlecock
	- Letter from Mr. Boswell, on his own Book [and] Another Letter from him, on Mrs. Piozzi's Book
	- Original Correspondence on the Discovery of Rowley's Poems
	- Original Correspondence on Chatterton and Rowley
	- Sonnet, supposed to be written by Chatterton
	- Particulars of Mr. Cowper, and his Poems
	- Ode for his Majesty's Birth-day written by Mr. [Thomas] Warton
	- Enormous Prices paid for Prints by Hogarth
	- Curious Description of the Barberini Vase
	- Botanical Account of the Pyrus Malus Sylvestris, or Crab-tree
	- Apparent Change of Sex in Birds
	- Peculiarities of the Macaw and the Cuckoo
	- Particular Account of the Sale of the Portland Museum
	- Strictures on the Education of Young Ladies
	- Danger of palliating Suicide
	- Error of Painters in representing Apparitions
	- Remedy for the Itch, as practiced in Russia
	- Obituaries of considerable Persons, including: John Byron (Royal Navy officer, explorer, and grandfather of Lord Byron); Father Rothe, "the famous Jesuit of White Russia... [who] dwelt in America twenty years, during which he converted a great number of the Indians..."; Mr. Wells Egelsham, "a character not unknown in the regions of politics, porter, and tobacco..."; etc. etc.
	- Plus monthly Intelligence from America, the West Indies, Europe, etc., parliamentary debates, poetry, Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.