1747 Jacobite Rising Austrian Succession MAPS Pliny Vesuvius Electricity Lovat

1747 Jacobite Rising Austrian Succession MAPS Pliny Vesuvius Electricity Lovat

The Gentleman’s Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interruption for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term ‘magazine’. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.

This 1747 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:

• Trial and execution of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat
  • Stemming from Jacobite Rising of 1745
• Description of Rhinoceros
• Electricity experiments – including use for disease cure
• Successes in Scotland of the Jacobite rebels
• Pliny’s account of the eruption of Vesuvius
  • Includes impressive folding view of the volcano
• Notes on battles from the War of the Austrian Succession

Item number: #21653

Price: $599

URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]

The Gentleman’s Magazine: and historical Chronicle

London: printed for E. Cave, 1747. First edition.

Details:

• Collation:
  • [4], 622, [18]
  • 16 engraved plates (2 folding)
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – PREND MOY TEL QUE JE SUIS
  • Coat of arms and motto of the Loftus family. While the identity of the owner is not certain, this was possibly Charles Tottenham Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely, KP, PC (1738–1806), an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in (21cm x 13.5cm)

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