Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, for Jan...

Hammer

€60

Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, for January to Dec 1743; in original half leather spine intact but lacking covers, intact text. 706 pps plus index. volume thirteen. Contains description of Greenland; Irish Cattle; America; news from Sweden; register of books; Samuel Johnson's 'Debates in the Senate of Lilliput' and poems by Samuel Boyse and William Dunkin; Spanish Ships captured. and much more in its 706 pages; missing covers but spine and text intact. Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle: 1755 January to December (including Index and Supplement), [4], 595 pages, [25], 23 engraved plates with titles (including frontispiece, 5 folding plates, Map of British and French Settlements in North America, Map of the World on Mercators Projection, Plan of the Intended New Road from Padington to Islington), folding page of shells, colour page of coach whipsnake, and much more; title page with central illustration (including engraving in text to first page of each monthly edition, tables and illustrations in text throughout), variety of subject matter (including Music, Meteorlogical Diary, Price of Corn, Poetry, Sketches, Country News, Obituaries, Taxes), covers missing but spine and text intact. Two rare issues full of interest. (2)