1755 1ed pre American Revolution Electricity Experiments French Forts Braddock

1755 1^ed pre American Revolution Electricity Experiments French Forts Braddock

The Gentleman’s Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt 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 1755 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents some being illustrated including:

• An account of the defeat of General Braddock and the number of dead and wounded and prisoners on account of Braddock’s defeat at the Monongahela in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1755
• Schemes to drive the French from America, including the taking of French Forts in the New York area and joining with the Native Americans and building ships to sail up the St. Lawrence river
• Account of the British defeat by General Braddock by the French in the woods near Fort Duquesne
• Foundation of the Mississippi Project
• Experiments on the effects of electricity – known deaths from electricity
  • The effects of electricity in the cure of different diseases in Sweden, demonstrated by experiments
  • Medical experiments with electricity to help treat amaurosis (eyes), gout, headache prevention, contractions, deafness, epilepsy, hysteric disorders, tooth ache, palsies, rheumatism and much more!
• Governor Dobb’s message to the assembly of North Carolina
  • Disunion of the English colonies sole means of its success

This edition includes 22 full-page and folding engravings as well as numerous in-text illustrations throughout!

Item number: #21655

Price: $750

URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]

The gentleman’s magazine: and Historical chronicle. Volume XXV.

London: printed for Henry and Cave, 1755. First Edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [4], 595, [25]
  • 22 engraved plates
• Provenance: Handwritten – James Walker Sen^r, 1840
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~8.5in X 5.25in (21.5cm x 13.5cm)

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