Sylvanus Urban  [ Edward Cave ] ( the first person to use th...

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Sylvanus Urban  [ Edward Cave ] ( the first person to use the word  'magazine' meaning 'store house' for a periodical )    "The Gentleman's Magazine" for the dates 1762, 1770, 1772 and 1778 - 
Vol. 1762 fourteen of 15 plates, lacking 'Hemlock', folding maps to include West Indies, Gibraltar, Portugal, the Siege of Havana and the British Empire in North America as settled by the Preliminaries of 1762, single page maps of Jamaica and the City and Harbour of Havana, book plate inside front board, quarter leather ( worn) contemporary marbled boards.

Vol 1772 - Maps to include West Florida and Poland, plates, Newton Family press ( letterpress) bookplate inside from board, full contemp tree calf, backstrip worn

Vol 1770 -  Four folding maps to include the Seat of the Mediterranean, the Falklands, plan of Constantinople , Turkey in Europe, plates, book plate inside front board, contemp marbled boards, quarter leather , pastedowns to backstrip 

Vol 1778 - folding maps to include Hudson's River, Dominica, Tobago, the Basingstoke and Belfast canals ( the latter foxed) material on the American Civil War, bookplate inside front board, contemp marbled boards, quarter leather - 
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Martin Benjamin (ed.) " Miscellaneous Correspondence " 1759 , London W Owen , vol II for the years 1757 and 1758, 8 maps, mainly folding, folding chart of the trail of the 1757 comet, 15 plates ( one folding) contemp marbled boards, wear. ( 5)

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