[Rarebooks] fa: 1802 Gentleman's Magazine: EGYPT - EPHESUS - GYPSIES - PEACE OF AMIENS, &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCCII [1802]. Volume LXXII [72]. Part the Second. London: Printed by Nichols and Son, 1802. Six monthly issues (July-December), plus index. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [4], 595-1229, [23] p.; with 16 copper-engraved plates (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Specimens of Antient and Modern Architecture; Plan of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus; Four Views of the Remains of Saltwood Castle in Kent; Medal on Nelson's Victory of the Nile; views of: the Ruins of Hardington House in Somersetshire, the West India Docks, the Town and Church of Haslemere in Surrey; plus more  views, miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, coins, inscriptions, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:

	- A number of items related to EGYPT and archaeology: The Pyramids of Giza covered with Inscriptions; Triple Inscription lately brought from Rosetta [re. the Rosetta Stone]; Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum; Dimensions of the Pyramids variously recorded; a lengthy, multi-part review/analysis of Vivant Denon's Voyage de la basse & de la haute Egypte, pendant les Campagnes de Bonaparte; a review of M. Clifford's " Egypt: a Poem"; On Abdolatiph's History of Egypt; etc.
	- Numerous articles on Architecture: Remarks on the Ancient English Architecture; The Fantastic Order of Architecture illustrated; Technical Terms in "Architectural Innovation"; Critique on the Building Called Tavistock Chapel; Mr. Malcolm's Vindication of Tavistock Chapel; The Controversy on Tavistock Chapel concluded; etc.
	- Observation on the TEMPLE OF DIANA AT EPHESUS; Drawing of ichnographic plan of Temple of Diana at Ephesus; Number of Columns in the Ephesian Diana; etc.
	- Several items related to the short-lived peace with France (the Treaty of Amiens): On John Brand's A Letter to **** *****, Esq. on Bonaparte's Proposals for opening a Negotiation for Peace; Antidote to the Prevalence of Jacobin Principles; On James Bicheno's An Estimate of the Peace [of Amiens]; etc.
	- A number of items related to Gypsies/Roma: Interesting Particulars of the Modern Gipsies; The Origin of the Gipsies deduced from India; Gitanos, or Gipsies of the Eastern Pyrenees; Similarity of Budoween [Bedouin] Arabs to the Gipsies; etc.
	- On The Asiatic Annual Register, or, A View of the History of Hindustan
	- A Sanskrit Inscription from Booddha Gaya
	- The Liberty of the English Press triumphant
	- An Extract from one of Miss [Anna] Seward's Letters, comparing Haydn's Creation with Handel's Messiah, as they were each heard at Birmingham in September last, with every advantage from an excellent Band, and fine vocal Performers
	- A Sonnet, Addressed to Mrs. Siddons. Written at Midnight, after leaving the Theatre at Belfast
	- On the proper Arrangement of a Library
	- Absurd Dress of Madame Recamier noticed
	- The Potato introduced to us from America
	- On Ketchup-makers
	- OBITUARIES, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons, including: Martha Washington; physician, poet and natural philosopher Erasmus Darwin; painters George Romney and Thomas Girtin; fencing master to the bon ton Domenico Angelo; poet Richard Owen Cambridge; Major William Henry Tone ("in the service of Holkar, in the East Indies...killed in an attack upon a mud fort, during which a musket ball took him in the right temple..."); etc. etc.
	- Plus Foreign and Domestic Occurrences, monthly meteorological tables, parliamentary debates, poetry, 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, much more.
Binding with rubbing, bumping to the corners, wear to the spine ends; text leaves with age-toning, intermittent browning, occasional light damp-staining; more conspicuous damp-staining to the plates, some plates with heavy browning. Front paste-down with the modern bookplate of Marius Nielsen (engraved by Johannes Britze).