[Rarebooks] fa: 1805 Gentleman's Magazine: HORATIO NELSON & BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR - VACCINATION &c.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCCV [1805]. Volume LXXV [75]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by J. Nichols and Son, 1805. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, preface and indexes. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; iv, 591, [21] p.; [2], 591, 592, [591]-1243, [23] p.; with in-text woodcuts and 25 copper-engraved plates.

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Design for a Monument for Admiral Lord Nelson; A Tesselated Pavement at Canterbury; Sections of Timber shewing the effect of Forsyth's Process for restoring decayed Trees; Iron Collar, &c. used for punishing Offenders in the Workhouse at Norwich; the Watchman's Noctuary; Eleven antient Crosses in Cornwall; Portraits of: a Gentleman of the sixteenth century, Samuel Martin, Esq. M.P.; Mary Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk; Sir Christopher Wray; Views of: the Parsonage House at Stanton Parva in Essex, the Church at Markeaton in Derbyshire, the Church and Gateway at Sheffield Palace, Cowdray House in Sussex, Remains of a Wall at Weston-super-Mare [and a] Cottage there, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Leeves; woodcut diagrams of an Apparatus from preventing smoky Chimnies and Smart's Machine for cleaning Chimnies [i.e., chimneys]; plus more views, miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, medals, coins, inscriptions, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Numerous items on HORATIO NELSON and the BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (October 21, 1805), notably: Memoirs and Heroic Achievements of Lord Nelson (a lengthy obituary/biography); an Account of the late Glorious Naval Victory off Trafalgar (a dispatch from Vice Admiral C[uthbert] Collingwood, Nelson's second in command); the Last official Letter of the immortal Nelson; Poems on his transcendant victory and on his death; Hints for his monument; Exposure of the Persons of Admirals; Sir R[ichard] Strachan's Supplemental Naval Victory; etc.
	- Impromptu by R[ichard] Cumberland, Esq. [mourning the death of Nelson at Trafalgar]; Dirge for Lord Nelson by the Rev. W. L. Bowles; On seeing. . . these words--"Nelson, the gallant Nelson, is no more"; Lines, written on the Victory obtained over the Combined Fleets of France and Spain, on the 21st of October last; To the Memory of Lord Viscount Nelson by M. Chamberlin, Author of "Ocean, a Poem," &c.
	- Additional ongoing contemporary coverage of the Napoleonic Wars: Naval Actions and Captures; French Gun-boats described; Englishmen not afraid of French Gun-boats; Farce of Invasion; Curious Anecdote of French Intrigue; Buonaparte crowned king of Italy; Speech of the Doge to Buonaparte, with his answer; the progress of French armies in Germany; surrender of Ulm; Vienna taken; the Justice and Policy of War with Spain; etc.
	- On Mr. [James] Neild's Researches into Prisons; Mr. Neild's Remarks on Prisons at Bury St. Edmunds; Mr. Neild's Remarks on Yorkshire Prisons [and] Lincolnshire Prisons; Mr. Neild's farther Account of Essex Prisons; etc.
	- Defence of Vaccination; Caution respecting the Vaccine Inoculation; Arguments on Vaccination and Inoculation; Candid Remarks on Vaccination; Authentic Report of the Royal Jennerian Society; etc.
	- [William] Forsyth's Experiments on decayed Trees; Mr. Knight on Mr. Forsyth's renovated Trees; etc.
	- Authentic Anecdotes of Edward Wortley Montagu
	- Burckhardt on the Zodiacs found in Egypt
	- A new Planet, named Juno, discovered
	- Literary and Philosophical News from Philadelphia
	- Address to Seamen and Mariners in Boston
	- Remedy for Smoaky Chimneys; Description of Smart's Chimney Cleanser
	- Account of a Child sold to a Chimney Sweeper
	- Cautions against the Receipt of indecent Valentines
	- OBITUARIES, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons, including: poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller; philosopher William Paley; poet and satirist Christopher Anstey; etc., etc.
	- Plus foreign and domestic news, monthly meteorological tables, parliamentary debates, poetry, Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Bills of Mortality; and much, much more.