[Rarebooks] fa: 1799 Gentleman's Magazine: LORD NELSON - NAPOLEON - KIEN LONG - COW-POX, &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCIX [1799]. Volume LXIX [69]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and sold by Elizabeth Newberry, 1799. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; iv, 563, [1] p.; [2], [545]-1194, [20] p.; with 27 copper-engraved plates, one of which is folding (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Plan and Elevation of a Mansion House proposed for Admiral Nelson; A Birds-eye View of the Town of Kingsbridge, in Devonshire, taken in 1586 (folding); Portraits and Autographs of Stephen Hales, D.D., and Robert Herrick, Poet; Monument for Richard Ouseley; View of the Church (with the Tower in Ruins) at Great Shelford in Cambridgeshire; Tomb of Catharine of Aragon in the Cathedral of Peterborough; Monumental Brass for Thomas Patesle, in the Church of Great Shelford; A Water-spout observed near Warrington, Lancashire, June 16, 1799; Views of: the Ruins of Cockermouth Castle, the Church at Bigby in Lincolnshire, Sudley Castle, the Church of Ingworth in Norfolk, the Church at Great Oxenden, the Church, &c. at Isleworth in Middlesex, the Gateway of Farley Castle, etc.; plus more views, portraits, coins, medals, inscriptions, antiquities, curiosities, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Numerous references to HORATIO NELSON (the autograph of; proceedings of his fleet from July 25 to August 2; letter from a sailor on-board his fleet; letter from his father to a neighbor; the Hon, Mrs Damer offers to execute a statue of him to be place in Guildhall; Lord Nelson's Arms; The Battle of the Nile; receives a dukedom and 3000l. a year from his Neapolitan Majesty; etc.) and NAPOLEON B[U]ONAPARTE (his character considered; on his expedition into Egypt; on the feasibility of his expedition; the intercepted letters from his army considered; etc.)
	- Extensive contemporary coverage of the ongoing WAR WITH FRANCE
	- On Richard Duppa's A Journal of the most remarkable Occurrences that took place in Rome upon the Subversion of the Ecclesiastical Government, in 1798.
	- Disquisition on the Cow-Pox; On Edward Jenner's An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease . . . known by the Name of the Cow-Pox; An Enquiry concerning the Cow-pox-mania; etc.
	- A Journey from Birmingham to Caernarvon, August 11, 1799
	- Disquisition on the Life of Chatterton, his Drawings, &c.
	- Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss [Sarah] Ponsonby at Llangollen
	- A Letter to the President and Council of the Royal Academy of London [from John Flaxman]
	- Verses to Henry Fuseli, Esq. R.A. on his Series of Pictures from the Poetical Works of Milton. By Mr. [William] Roscoe; On Visiting Fuseli's Milton Gallery, in Pall Mall. By Mr. [George] Dyer
	- A Negro Song. [From an event that occurred in Mr. Mungo Park's Travels in Africa] The Words by [Georgiana] the Duchess of Devonshire
	- Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat; written at the request of a Lady
	- On the Impropriety of Theatrical Representations, as far as they relate to the Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, when brought forward as illustrative of the Antient History of this Country
	- Remarkable Instance of Longevity [a Bengali who reputedly died at the age of 370]
	- A Dissertation on Sneezing
	- Obituaries of remarkable Persons, including: Emperor Kien Long [Quianlong] of China (in two parts); playwright Pierre Beaumarchais; Richard, Earl Howe (the Admiral Lord Howe of Revolutionary War fame; in multiple parts); inventor and balloonist Peter [Jacques-Etienne] Montgolfier; Pope Pius VI; Swiss naturalist Benedict de Saussure; Patrick Henry; the Chevalier St.-Georges, "renowned for fencing and other bodily exercises" (but no mention of his fame as a virtuoso violinist, orchestra conductor, and the first significant classical musician and composer of African descent); etc. etc.
	- Plus monthly Intelligence from America, the West Indies, Europe, etc., meteorological tables, 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.