1819 Napoleon Waterloo Defeat Herculaneum SLAVE TRADE Punishment Gentlemans Mag

1819 Napoleon Waterloo Defeat Herculaneum SLAVE TRADE Punishment Gentlemans Mag

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 1819 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:

• Early American interest:
  • Financial and commercial struggles in US
  • Seminole War and criticism of President Jackson
• Samuel Johnson correspondence
• Ancient Roman ruins found in the Tiber
• On the punishment of slave traders and slave dealers
• On Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo
• Ruins and description of Herculaneum
• Egyptian mummy on display in Edinburgh

Item number: #24506

Price: $599

URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]

The Gentleman’s Magazine: for 1819, volume 89

London: printed by John Nichols, 1819. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
  • 1 – iv, 576, 593-684
  • 2 – iv, 592, 577-664
    • Binding error: Part I contents bound with Part II title page, preface, supplement, and index
    • Binding error: Part II contents bound with Part I title page, preface, supplement, and index
  • Illustrated with 26 engraved plates
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.5in X 5.25in (22cm x 13.5cm)

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