1789 1ed AMERICA Constitutional LAWS Discovery of America Tycho Brahe Astronomy

1789 1^ed AMERICA Constitutional LAWS Discovery of America Tycho Brahe Astronomy

A fine 18^th-century printing of the Gentleman’s Magazine!

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 1789 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:

• Reports from America:
  • On laws of Massachusetts court
  • Articles of Confederation and constitutional amendments
• Discovery of America by Welsh voyagers
  • Heavy doubts of the true first discoverers of America
• Letters of Charles I
  • Visitation of Cromwell after his death
• Diplomacy between Frederick II of Prussia and Philip II
• Abolishment of French game laws
• Reflection of Mary Queen of Scots
• Notes on Tycho Brahe’s observatory
• Description on the life of William the Conqueror
• Beginning of the French Revolution and storming of the Bastille

Item number: #22304

Price: $599

URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]

The Gentleman’s Magazine: for 1789

London: printed by John Nichols, for David Henry, 1789. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1
  • Part I – iv, 579 (i.e., 571), [19]
  • Part II – [3], 582-1218, [18]
  • 37 engravings
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – William Delmar
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 13.5cm)

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