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Paperback. Condición: Good.

Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 525-548 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; pages age-browned; chipping along right edges of several pages affecting the end-words of text to pages 527-528 (otherwise to blank margins only); double-page fold-out engraving detached but present; several pages loose but present. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Duties of the Allies to Themselves and to Europe; The Cannon Revolver (with front cover engraving); The Battle of Inkerman - From our Special Correspondent; General Canrobert's Account of the Battle; Prince Menschikoff's Account of the Battle; Captain Lewis Edward Nolan, Late of the 15th Hussars (with engraving); Charge of the Chasseurs D'Afrique (with engraving); The Battle of Inkerman - Official Despatches, Lord Raglan's Despatch (with two engravings "The Allied Troops Preparing to Silence Inkerman" and "Vale Leading to Inkerman"); lengthy editorial commentary "The Battle of Inkerman"; Latest Intelligence; The Charge of the Scots Greys (with full-page engraving "The Action at Balaclava - Charge of the Scots Greys, October 25"); full-page engraving "Sortie of the Russians From Sebastopol, October 26"; Naval Attack on the Russian Fort of Petropaulovski (with engraving); Incidents at the Battle of Inkerman (topics include The Night Before the Battle; Our Pickets Fall Back; Hand-to-Hand Fighting - British Pluck; How Bravely the Guards Fought); Inauguration of the Statue of Charles XIV, at Stockholm (with engraving); short Statue of the Poet Wordsworth (with engraving); Restoration of St. Nicholas Church, Islip, Northamptonshire (with small engraving); Denshanger New Church (with small engraving); Ball at the Guildhall, in Aid of the Patriotic Fund (with engraving); General Canrobert (with portrait engraving); Lieut-General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.B. (with portrait engraving); engraving "Sortie of the Russians from Sebastopol"; Eupatoria - From a Correspondent (with five engravings); Despatches From Lord Raglan; Obituary of Officers in the Crimea; The Attack of the Scots Greys (with double-page fold-out engraving "The Battle of Balaclava - Attack of the Scots Greys").

SingleIssueMagazine. Condición: Very Good. First edition. The Encore Magazine N.H. 1944 First Edition 127 page Vintage Digest Sized Magazine . Edited by Dent Smith with stories and articles by Jack London, Charles Mackay, Leo Tolstoy, Ambrose Bierce and others A very good copy with light edge wear, small repaired tear at the head of the spine. See Photos clph(encore.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 201-224 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; pages very lightly age-browned, former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front page, periodic light soil, else in very nice condition. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, sports, art, theatre, and music. Notable articles and entries include The Resignation of the Ministry; The Mutiny in India; The New Ministry; The Royal Bridal Tour - The Illuminations at Berlin; Sketches in Parliament; The Royal Marriage Festivities in Berlin; Dr. Livingstone's Exploration of the Zambesi River; Transatlantic Sketches - Washington; The Trade of 1857; Conspiracy to Murder Bill; The War in China; Grenade Used in the Late Attack on the Life of the French Emperor; The Royal Marriage Tour. With numerous engravings, including front cover engraving Street and Bazaar in Peshawur; four splendid engravings accompanying the article The Royal Bridal Tour - The Illuminations at Berlin; full-page engraving The Royal Marriage Festivities in Berlin - Presentation of the Addresses by the Butchers and Merchants; full-page engraving The Royal Marriage Festivities in Berlin - Ball in the White Saloon; engraving Steam-Launch Built for Dr. Livingstone's Exploration of the Zambesi River; five engravings accompanying the article The War in China, including Tiger Island, Chinese Woman Reading, Firing 10-Inch Guns at Ty-Cock-Tow Forts (Canton River).

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 381-404 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; rear page corner tear clear-tape repaired; light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Patriotic Fund; The Field of Battle (Alma, with front cover engraving "After the Battle"); lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; Australia; The Siege of Sebastopol; Orders to the Army Before Commencing Siege Operations; Telegraphic Despatches; Prince Menschikoff's Despatches; The Baltic Fleet; Expedition Against the Russians at Sitka; The War in Asia; America; India and China); The Vintage in France - Bordeaux and the Claret Districts (with six engravings); The Charge Up the Heights of Alma (with double-page fold-out engraving "The British Troops on the Heights of Alma - Grand Charge of the Guards"); poem "Alma" by Mrs. T.K. Hervey; lengthy The Battle of the Alma - Official List of Killed and Wounded - From a Supplement to last Tuesday's 'Gazette'; Lieut. Montagu O'Reilly's Private Audience With the Sultan (with engraving); Recent Ascent of Monte Rosa - By a Correspondent (with engraving); short New Church at Aberdare (with small engraving); short Gannet, Shot in Lincolnshire (with engraving); The Wreck of 'The Artic' (with engraving); lengthy Her Majesty's Visit to Hull and Grimsby (with topics Arrival of the Royal Party at Hull; The Illumination; The Scene at the Railway Hotel; The Embarkation at the Pier; The Reception at Grimsby; The Visit to Grimsby Docks; The Journey Home - with seven engravings, including full-page "Her Majesty's Visit to Hull - The Procession in the Market-Place" and partial-page "Presentation of Addresses to Her Majesty, at the Station Hotel, Hull").

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 197-220 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light foxing throughout; fold-out detached but present. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article Free-Trade in France; Conflagration at Varna - From a Correspondent (with front cover engraving); lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (including topics The Surrender of Bomarsund; The Expeditionary Force at Varna; Great Alarm at Odessa; Turkish Reverse in Asia; The Austrian Occupation of Wallachia; Austrian Answer to the Russian Note; Political Demonstration at Copenhagen; The Revolution in Spain; America; others); The Lizard Serpentine Company's Signal Staff Quarry, Near Cadgwith (with engraving); Discovery of the Remains of the Alexandrian Library (with engraving); Lancaster's Oval Cannon (with five Figures); short H.M.S. 'Antelope' in the Bonny River (with engraving); Launch of a Gun-Boat (with engraving "Launch of H.M. Gun-Boat 'Pelter,' and the Portuguese Steam-Ship 'Dom Pedro Secondo,' at Northfleet"); double-page fold-out Panoramic View of Varna, and the Adjacent Coast (with three engravings including several partially-submerged wrecks); Attempted Revolution in New Granada - From our Private Correspondent; The New Uniform - From our Military Correspondent; Sketch at an Indian Railway Station (with engraving); Mr. Edward L. Davenport (with portrait engraving); Dr. Wylde, Founder of the New Philharmonic Society (with portrait engraving); Mr. John B. Gough (with portrait engraving); The King's Lynn Union Workhouse (with engraving); short Caldicott Castle (with engraving of Remains); short St. Ninian's, Perth (with engraving); Marshall O'Donnell, Count of Lucena, The Spanish Minister of War (with engraving); The Greek Courts at the Crystal Palace (with engraving); Laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Church of St. Thomas, Newport, Isle of Wight, by H.R.H. Prince Albert (with engraving); The Oldham Industrial and Educational Exhibition (with engraving); The Educational Exhibition (by The Society of Arts); lengthy A Glance at Our War on the Danube - From a Correspondent; poem A Hymn For the Harvest by William Martin; French Agriculture (with two engravings: "Ploughing in France" and "Harvest-Home Custom in France"); short Sculpture in the Pediment of the Great Western Royal Hotel (with engraving); short Model Figure [of Alice Evelyn Tupper] by J. Durham (with drawing); The Beaufoy Shakspearian Medal (with drawing of obverse and reverse); Sketches of the Manners and Customs of a Genteel Little Sea-Side Town (No. II); The General Courts-Martial at Windsor - From our Military Correspondent; Some Observations on the Origin of Chess (Chapter IV) by Dr. Duncan Forbes.

Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 77-100 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; pages age-browned; light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The War Debate in Both Houses; Dervishes of Constantinople (with front cover engraving); lengthy regular column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; The Overland Mail; The Insurrection in Madrid; others); lengthy news updates on The War (topics include Sir Charles Napier's Operations; The Czar's Answer to Austria; The Battle of Kama - Defeat of the Russians; Naval Operations on the Danube; The Russian Fleet in the Indian Seas; others); The Royal Agricultural Society at Lincoln - The Live-Stock Prizes (with full-page engraving of Prize Cattle); North Devon Railway (with four engravings); four engravings of art works featured at The Royal Academy and The New Society of Painters in Water-Colours; Extramural Cemetary for St. Pancras and Islington (with engraving); short Holy Trinity National Schools, Weymouth (with small engraving); short New Church of St. John the Evangelist, at Lowestoft (with engraving); short Memorial to Lieutenant Bellot (with drawing of Tablet); The Goodwood Race Plate (with three engravings); Paris Fashions for August (with four small engravings); three-paragraph The Census - Ages and Occupations; Embarkation of Artillery Horses at Calais (with engraving); The Ornamental Waters in the Bois de Boulogne (with engraving); short Infernal Engines in the Baltic (with drawing); The Late Captain Butler (with portrait engraving); The Siege of Silistria (with four engravings); The Feast of the Bairam (with engraving); short Russian Prisoners at Constantinople (with engraving).

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 173-196 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The First Blow ("The first blow has been struck at Bomarsund"); short The Camp at Boulogne (with front cover engraving "The 5th French Regiment of the Line Passing Through the Porte des Dunes, on Their Way to the Camp of Boulogne"); lengthy regular column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; Spain; Preparing for the Crimea; The Allied Troops in Turkey - The Cholera; A Russian Victory in Asia; Position of the German Powers; The Austrians in Wallachia; America); lengthy regular news column Naval and Military Intelligence (including topic Trial of the New Gunboat - Extraordinary Results); The Wattled Talegalla, or Brush Turkey, at the Zoological Society's Gardens (with engraving); short Cricket-Match on the Goodwin Sands (with engraving); engraving of art-work "Giving an Order" painted by J.H. Mole; engraving of art-work "Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey" painted by J. Wilson; Kars and Erzeroom (with two engravings); Field-Marshall Baron Von Hess (with engraving); A Quasi-Russian Prize (with engraving); The Capture of Bomarsund (with map of the Fortifications of Bomarsund and detailed Plan of the Attack on Bomarsund); short The Fire at Cubitt's Building Works (with engraving); short Billingsgate New Market (with engraving); short New Schools at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight (with small engraving); Opening of the Central Somerset Railway (with engraving); Paris Fashions for September (with engraving); St. John's Wood Barracks (with engraving); musical score "Patriot Song of the Finlanders" (The Poetry by Runeberg, The Swedish Bard, and The Music by F. Pacius); Notes of a Rambler (No. II) - Edinburgh; The Peak of Derbyshire - The Peak Castle (with engraving) - Buxton (with engraving of "The Crescent, New Baths") - The Blue John Mine (with engraving) - Haddon Hall (with engraving); Commencement of the Victor Emmanuel Railway - From a Correspondent; The War on the Danube - From our Special Correspondent (with engraving "Rustchuk - Bridge of Boats in Course of Construction"); short Discussing the War at Copenhagen (with engraving inside a coffee-house).

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 125-148 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; two fold-outs, including Map of The Ottoman Empire, detached but present; light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article Close of the Session; The House of Commons' Library (with front cover engraving); lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; Renewal of Disturbances in Spain; United States); lengthy news updates The War (topics include The Bombardment of Bomarsund; The War in Asia; The Crimea Expedition; The Retreat of the Russians - Evacuation of Moldavia; Prison Discipline); Turkish Coal-Mine on the Black Sea (with engraving); Funeral of Captain Hyde Parker (with engraving); The Female Hippopotamus in the Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's-Park (with engraving); short The 'Cataragui' Coming Down the Galop Rapids Above Montreal, Canada (with engraving); double-page fold-out Cronstadt (with two engravings: "H.M.S. 'Driver' and Yachts 'Gondola' and 'Esmeralda,' Off Cronstadt" and "Cronstadt, and the Russian Fleet, From the Sea"); Notes of a Rambler - Railways and Refreshment-Rooms; Thames Grand National Regatta (with engraving of the Prizes); Highgate Model Yacht Club (with engraving); engraving of art work "Othello" painted by H.C. Selous; engraving of art work "The Russian Serf" painted by Joseph J. Jenkins; Baldomero Espartero, The Duke of Victory, President of the Council of the Ministry of Spain (with portrait engraving); Espartero's Entrance Into Madrid (with engraving); The Madrid Insurrection - Sacking of the Ministers' Hotels (with two engravings: "The Insurrection in Spain - Barricade in the Place San Geronimo, Near the Prado, Madrid" and "The Insurrection in Spain - The Insurgents Setting Fire to the Palace of Queen Christina, at Madrid"); short Launch of a Mission Vessel (with engraving of the "Allen Gardiner"); lengthy Turkey: Geographical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Statistical (with double-page fold-out map "Map of The Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Greece, and The Russian Provinces on the Black Sea"); poem The Lime-Tree by Frances Bennoch.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 221-244 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges of last few pages (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Colony of the Fiddle (on Ole Bull); Abo (the Capital of Russian Finland, with front cover engraving); two-paragraph A Popular Movement in Denmark; lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include The Crimea Expedition - Russian Preparations; The Battles of Bayazid and Kurukdere; Turkey and Austria in the Principalities; Austrian Neutrality; The Austrian and Prussian Notes to Russia; A Skirmish at Shanghae; others); short The 'Charlemagne' at Constantinople (with engraving); short French Military Barracks Outside Pera (with engraving); short Rear-Admiral Plumridge (with portrait engraving); short New South Wales Regatta Cup (with engraving); Operations of the White Sea Squadron (with engravings "Attack on the Town of Novitska, in the White Sea, by the 'Miranda' and 'Brisk'" and "Burning of the Town of Novitska, in the White Sea"); The Royal Meeting at Boulogne (topics include The Grand Mass at the Camp; Arrival of the King of Portugal; The Arrival of Prince Albert; The Reception of Prince Albert; The Review at St. Omer - with engravings "The Meeting of His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Emperor of the French, at Boulogne"; "Sketch of a Portion of the Camp at St. Omer"; two drawings of "Medal Struck at the Mint, at Paris, to Commemorate the Anglo-French Alliance"; and full-page engraving "The Grand Military Mass, at the Camp at Honvault, Near Boulogne, on Sunday Last"); Sweden and Norway - From a Correspondent; Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter (with two engravings: "The Marriage Procession of the Sultan's Daughter, at Constantinople" and "Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter - Fete at Baltaliman"); Militia and Yeomanry (with full-page engraving "English Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry"); The General Court-Martial at Windsor - From our Military Correspondent; Victoria London Docks (with engraving); Henry Russell (with portrait engraving); Sugar Manufacture in Brazil (with engraving); short The Capture of Bomarsund (with full-page engraving "Fort Nottich, Bomarsund - Breach Made by an English Three-Gun Battery"); Notes of a Rambler (No. III) - Fife-Aberdeen; untitled poem, author not mentioned, "On reading an abstract account of the prison horrors at Birmingham, and Lord Dudley Stuart's report of the state of our hospital at Constantinople, in the 'Times,' Friday, July 28, 1854"; occasional column Nooks and Corners of Old England - Belsize House (with engraving); Varna After the Recent Fire (with engraving); short Boat Attack, Aland Isles (with engraving); lengthy The War on the Danube - From our Special Correspondent (with two engravings and map).

Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 65-84 plus four-page unpaginated advertising supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges and fore-edges of each page (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); age-browned. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Meeting of Parliament; column Foreign and Colonial News (including updates on The Fleets in the Black Sea and The War on the Danube); The Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia (with portrait engravings of Prince Stirbry and Prince Ghika); H.M. Steam-Frigate 'Retribution' (with engraving); Mollahs Proceeding to Council (with two engravings); Army Clothing; The Command of the Army; The Suppressed Pamphlet (regarding "Lord Palmerston, What Has He Done?"); short Her Majesty's Skates (with drawing); Sketches From Kalafat and Widdin - The War on the Danube (with several engravings, including front cover); The London Reformatory Institution, Great Smith-Street, Westminster (with four engravings); Paris Fashions for February (with engravings); The King of Portugal (with portrait engraving of Dom Pedro V); short Ballooning at Bombay (with engraving); short The Flood at Doncaster (with engraving); The Late Remarkable Weather; Wreck of the 'Tayleur,' in Dublin Bay (with two engravings).

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. A decent copy in solid binding. Text clean and clear. Some dampstaining to lower quarter of boards, especially back board with damage to back pastedown and endpaper (not affecting text). Owner's names. A worn copy but still handsome. Size: large 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Not Issued. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt, black, and red. Mild rubbing to joints, rubbed spine extremities, mild exposure to bottom corners. Firm binding. xvi,223,4,8 pp. Clean interior, a bit tanned. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. A decent copy in solid binding. Text clean and clear. Some dampstaining to lower quarter of boards, especially back board with damage to back pastedown and endpaper (not affecting text). Owner's names. A worn copy but still handsome. Size: large 8vo. Book.

Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 137-156 plus four-pages of advertisements, unpaginated; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges and fore-edges of each page (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); pages age-browned. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The New Reform Bill; Sketches in Turkey - A Turkish School for Teaching the Koran, and A Turkish Coffee-House (both entries with front cover engravings); lengthy update The War; short Departure of Baron Brunnow From London (with engraving); short Departure of M. De Kisseleff From Paris (with engraving); short Alexandria - The 'Himalaya' Steam-Ship (with engraving); short Iron House Building (with engraving); short The Battle of Citate (with full-page engraving); Going to the War (with two engravings - The Coldstream Guards Leaving St. George's Barracks, on Tuesday; and, The Grenadier Guards Leaving the Tower, on Tuesday Last); The Army - From Our Military Correspondent; short The Esquimaux Family (with engraving); short Accident to the Calais Steam-Ship 'Menai' (with engraving); The Catholic & Apostolic Church, Gordon-Square (with engraving); The Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital (with engraving); Loss of the 'Olinda'; John Bowring, Esq., LL.D., Governor of Hong-Kong (with portrait engraving); Hong-Kong (with half-page engraving Hong-Kong, From the Harbour); The War on the Danube - From Our Special Correspondent; Louis Napoleon's Letter to Nicholas.

Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 45-64 plus four-page unpaginated advertising supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges and fore-edges of each page (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); lightly aged; lightly foxed in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Prince Consort; The Battles of Kalafat and Citale: Glorious Defeat of the Russians (with front page map and engraving); The War on the Danube; Prince Albert (including The Slanders Against Prince Albert); The 'Himalaya' Steam-Ship (with engraving); Iron Coaling Station at the Cape of Good Hope (with engraving); The Fleet Sewer (with two engravings); The Sultan Going to Mosque (with splendid full-page engraving The Sultan Proceeding to Mosque, at Constantinople); The Emperor Nicholas, and the House of Romanoff (with splendid full-page engraving The Emperor Nicholas, The Grand Duke Alexander, and Staff, at St. Petersburg); Cotton in India; Canada Great Western Railway (with engraving); The Bread Riots at Exeter (with engraving); Consecration of St. Andrew's Church, Islington (with engraving); Trinity College, Dublin (with drawing); Funeral of Lord Beresford (with engraving); The Museum of Ornamental Art (with several engravings).

Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 181-200 including Supplement plus four pages of advertisements, unpaginated; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges and fore-edges of each page (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); pages lightly age-browned; periodic light age spots. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article Ready for the Conflict ("It seems to have puzzled various members of the British Legislature to decide whether we were actually at peace or at war with Russia"); China: Its Present Condition and Prospects; lengthy Preparations for War (with engravings The Rifle Brigade Embarking in 'The Vulcan' War Steamer, at Portsmouth; The Grenadier Guards Embarking in 'The Ripon' Steamer at Southampton; The Coldstream Guards, in 'The Orinoco' Steamer, Leaving Southampton; Embarkation of the 50th Regiment - Queen's Own - on Board 'The Cambria' at Kingstown); splendid full-page engraving Troops for the War - British Infantry Guards; splendid full-page engraving Troops for the War - British Infantry; Stag-Hunting (with two engravings); Paris Fashions for March (with engravings); short Turkish Sentinels (with engraving); Schumla - Interview with Omer Pacha - The Fortifications (with two engravings: front cover engraving Interview of British Visitors With Omer Pacha, at Schumla; rear page engraving Fort of Fidieh-Tabiassi - View of the Town and Plain of Schumla); short Embarkation of Troops in the 'Himalaya' Steam-Ship (with engraving); short The Emperor Napoleon's Speech.

Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 25-44 plus four-page unpaginated advertising supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges and fore-edges of each page (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); special four-page pullout detached but present; lightly aged and lightly corner creased. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Allied Fleets in the Euxine; Her Majesty's Sledge (with two engravings); West Coast of Africa (with two engravings: H.M. Ship Penelope Destroying the Town of Grand Taboo, and The Admiral Receiving King Ducimo on Board The Penelope Off Lagos); The Accident at Southampton Docks (with engraving); New Year's Festivities and Juvenile Parties in France (with two engravings); The Artic Search; special pull-out The Black Sea (with map and engravings); The War on the Danube From Our Special Correspondent out of Negotin, Dec. 25 (with engravings); The Late Snow-Storm (with two engravings and subheadings The Streets of London, The Railway, Scene in the Pool of the Thames); Shipwrecks and Loss of Life at Tynemouth (with engraving); The London Corporation - The City Police and Thieves' Sanctuary; The Great Metropolitan Poultry Show (with four engravings); Showballing on Liverpool 'Change [Exchange] (with engraving).

Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 157-180 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges and fore-edges of each page (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); pages lightly age-browned; periodic light age spots. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The State of the Nation (which begins: "How do we stand at the opening of a long-averted, but inevitable war? How is the British nation circumstanced at a crisis which, in all human likelihood, is the commencement of a new European era?"); short Her Majesty's Steam-Frigate 'Euryalus,' at Chatham (with front cover engraving); Colliery Explosion and Dreadful Loss of Life; lengthy news update on The War; Preparations for War; 'Campaign Ovens' for Victualling the French Troops (with engraving); Great Fire at Quebec (with engraving); Wreck in the Bay of Bengal (with engraving); short Rifle Volunteers at Portsmouth (with engraving); short Battery Practice at Portsmouth (with engraving); Inspection of the Guards by Prince Albert (with engraving); Farewell Banquet to the Officers of the Guards (with engraving); View of Sebastopol, at the Gallery of Illustration (with engraving); Opening of the Poplar Sailors' Home (with engraving); lengthy The War on the Danube (with engraving Panoramic View of the Town and Fortifications of Schumla; portrait engraving of the Governor of Schumla); Prince Jerome Bonaparte (with engraving); The Artificial Propagation of Salmon and Other Fish; The Non-Commissioned Officers of the British Army; 'Fishing Boats in a Squall' by Turner in the Bridgewater Gallery (with engraving); New Pianoforte Music; The British Institution (with two art engravings).

Magazine. Condición: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 481-504 plus unpaginated advertisements; previously disbound from bound volume; rear section detached but present; periodic light age and dust spots, light foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Labour Parliament; Louis Napoleon's Hunting Parties at Fontainbleau; Foreign and Colonial News - including The War Between Russia and Turkey; Wreck of the "Meridian"; New Australian Clipper Ship "Speedy"; Prince Menschikow, The Russian Minister of Marine; The Balkan, As Seen From the Danube Below Galatz; The Planet Saturn; short Double Fog-Bow; The Corporation of London - City Improvements; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Smithfield Club Prize Cattle; The American Thrashing and Separating Machine; short Large Rabbit; Provincial Intelligence; Fat Stock and the Smithfield Show; short Christmas Grand Poultry Show; short Smithfield Club Prize Medal; short Royal Present to a British Officer; short London and Blackwall Railway - Enlargement of the Fenchurch-Street Station; Mr. Albert Smith; Music; The Theatres, &c.; Town and Table Talk, on Literature, Art, &c.; Chess; Obituary of Eminent Persons; The Chinese Rebellion (including engraving "The Rebellion in China - Credential of a Member of the Triad Society"); Races Near Wellington, New Zealand; advertisements; Improved Short-Horns; The Court; Postscript - including Russia and Turkey; Metropolitan News - including Health of London; three-page musical score "King Alfred" (Air, "My Lodging is on the Cold Ground" with words by Charles Mackay); short Favourites of the Royal Stud (with full-page engraving); Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 201-220 plus unpaginated advertisements; previously disbound from bound volume; the lightest of foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Results of "Protection" in France; The Baking Trade in Paris; Foreign and Colonial News - including The Eastern Question; Testimonial to Henry Edwards, Esq. - Presentation and Public Dinner at Halifax; The Dargan Villa, Mount Annville - Visit of Her Majesty; The Sheffield Cutlers' Feast; The Russian Squadron for Japan; Administrative Reform; The Grape Vine Mildew; The Queen's Visit to Ireland; full-page engraving "Visit of Her Majesty to the Dublin Great Exhibition"; Dublin Great Exhibition - An Estimate of the Cost of Its Construction, and of the Value of Its Contents; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Chess; Foundation of a New Harbour at Guernsey; The Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary, Margate; National Floricultural Society; The Rival Railways; Literature (book reviews); Railway Collisions; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; short The Antwerp Regatta Gold Cup; short American Aloe in Bloom; short Warwick Race Plate; short The Lord Warden Hotel, Dover; advertisements; Provincial Intelligence; Postscript - including Russia and Turkey, Protestant Burial on the Continent; The Court; The British Association; Church, Universities, &c.; Music - Bradford Musical Festival; The Theatres; National Sports; Metropolitan News; Dreadful Occurrence and Loss of Life (a fallen house at No. 184, Strand); Monetary Transactions of the Week; advertisements.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 1-16; previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-toned; periodic light age and dust spots; fold-out engraving detached but present. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Impending War; The Grand Duke Constantine, Prince Paskewitsch, and Admiral Lazareff; Foreign and Colonial News - including Russia and Turkey - Occupation of the Danubian Principalities by Russia; The Danubian Provinces - Moldavia; Fifth Grand Centennial Fete at Berne; The Camp at Chobham - Lieut.-General Lord Seaton, G.C.B., &c.; The Court - including The Queen's Concert; Metropolitan News; double-page fold out with two engravings: "The Turkish Fleet at Anchor at Buyukdera, in the Bosphorus" and "The Combined English and French Fleets in Besika Bay"; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Chess; Medical Benevolent College; Church, Universities, &c.; The Aztec Children; Opening of the New Stand-House on the Curragh; United Society for Irish Church Missions; Provincial Intelligence; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Music; The Theatres; National Sports; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Gavazzi Riots in Canada; City of Jassy, Moldavia.

Magazine. Condición: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 297-316 plus unpaginated advertisements; previously disbound from bound volume; rear section detached but present; periodic light age spots and foxing. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The War in the East; The Sultan's New Palace, at Dolmabaghdsche, on the Bosphorus; Foreign and Colonial News - including Declaration of War by Turkey, and The Military Congress of Olmutz; Trade - Russia and Turkey; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Loss of the Steamer "Quito"; New Church at Holyhead; Tour of the Emperor and Empress of the French in the North of France; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; full-page engraving "Visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to Boulogne - Grand Ball in the Theatre"; Literary Miscellanies No. VI - Country Theatricals; Music; The Theatres; Our Magazine Column for October; The Lawson Midland Observatory; Civic Tenure Custom in the Court of Exchequer; Laying of the Foundation-Stone of the Victoria Pier, Queenstown; Limerick Docks and Railway; Cape York Aborigines; Railway Intelligence; The Strait of the Dardanelles (with map and three engravings on full-page); advertisements; Metropolitan News; Provincial Intelligence; The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Postscript - including War in the East; The Cholera; Chess; National Sports; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 221-240 plus unpaginated advertisements; previously disbound from bound volume; the lightest of foxing and age spots in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Turkish Question; The Sultan of Turkey; Foreign and Colonial News - including The Turkish Question, and California ("From our own correspondent, San Francisco, August 1, 1853"); Worcestershire Natural History Museum Bazaar; short The Dublin Exhibition; short The Dorcaster Cup; Meeting of the British Association, at Hull; Horticultural Fete in Auckland Park; The Fatal Accident in the Strand; Hotel Charges - The Mount Vernon Hotel, Cape May, New Jersey (U.S.); Funeral of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier; The Penny Postage; The Birmingham Gaol Inquiry; The Theatres; Chess; Reform in Agriculture - The Ducie Family and Estates; Festivities at Kinmel Park, County Denbigh; Great Demonstration of the London Temperance League; Destructive Fire at Milwall, Poplar; The Kilmore Address; poem "The North Star" by Angus B. Reach; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Literature (book reviews); Sculpture in the New York Exhibition; short St. Elfin's New Schools, Warrington; advertisements; Music; Postscript; Country News; The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Royal Bucks Agricultural Association; Metropolitan News; National Sports - Doncaster Races; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 49-64; previously disbound from bound volume; front and rear pages detached but present; pages lightly age-toned; light foxing. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Proposed Reforms in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; Great Delivery of Australian Gold; Foreign and Colonial News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Sandown Castle; Montenegro: Its Vladika and People; The Italian Boulevards, Paris; The Burmese War; The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Metropolitan News; Provincial Intelligence; Railway Intelligence; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; The Gold Fields of Australia (with several engravings headlined "The Turon Gold Diggings"); Sale of the Orleans Gallery; The Theatres, &c.; Music; National Sports; Chess; Naval and Military Intelligence; The Great Metropolitan Poultry Show; New Church at Kingswood, Surrey; Launch of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-ship the "Vectis"; Statuette of the Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T.; Law and Police Intelligence; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Ericsson's Caloric-Ship; advertisements; The Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal.

Magazine. Condición: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 437-460 plus unpaginated advertisements; previously disbound from bound volume; rear section detached but present; periodic light age and dust spots, light foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Parliamentary Reform; front cover engraving "Horses of the Crimea in a Winter Storm on the Black Sea"; Foreign and Colonial News - including The War Between Russia and Turkey; Naval and Military Intelligence; Town and Table Talk on Literature, Art, &c.; Commencement of the European and North America Railway; The Burmese War - including Meeah Toon's Stockade; The City Corporation Commission - New Municipal Scheme; Country News; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Literary Miscellanies No. VIII - A Speculative Bishop; Poetry From the Diggings - "The Good Time's Come at Last" by J.H. (copied from a Melbourne newspaper); The Russian Troops; The Turkish Army; The Greek Church (continued from Issue No. 654); Railway Intelligence; Music; The Theatres, &c.; The Late Mr. Gardiner, of Leicester; Chess; Patrial Destruction of Lismore-Bridge; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Testimonial to the Head-Master of the Birmingham School of Design; J. E. Millais, A.R.A.; The Cottonian Public Library, Plymouth; The Decimal System - Coinage; Literature (book reviews); Giurgevo; The Black Sea, With the Entrance to the Bosphorus; advertisements; New Iron Clipper Ship "Tayleur," for Australia; Postscript - including Russia and Turkey, and Australia (extracts from letters dated Sydney, June 25 and June 29); Statue of Humphrey Chetham; Monument to the Scottish Political Martyrs; Friern Barnet Church and Schools; The New Sporting Yacht "Rifleman"; The Court - including Visit of Her Majesty and the Duchess of de Brabant to Westminster Abbey, &c.; Metropolitan News - including Health of London; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; short Artificial Pearls; Paris Fashions for December.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 193-208; previously disbound from bound volume; the lightest of foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Prospects of the Ottoman Empire; Parliamentary Election Committees; Imperial Parliament; Interoceanic Routes Across Central America (with map and engraving "Bird's-Eye View From the Junction of the Proposed Canal With the Savana River to the Atlantic"); Great Shoal of Whales; Metropolitan Improvements; Parliamentary Portraits; The Manufacture of Paper; The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Foreign and Colonial News; Marriage at Notre Dame (regarding the "allotment of wedding portions to certain couples by the Imperial liberality"); short Monument to Lady Margaret Maria Cocks; Apparatus for the Removal of Large Trees; Banquet at the Town-Hall, Liverpool; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Metropolitan News; Provincial Intelligence; Chess; Epitome of News, Foreign and Domestic; Female Emigration Fund; Fine Arts; Music; The Theatres; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; advertisements; Protestant Testimonial to the Rev. Dr. Cumming; short The Corridor of Committee-Rooms, House of Commons.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 465-480; previously disbound from bound volume; a few very light small age spots; the lightest of foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Curiosities of the Census; Committees on Projected Railways; Foreign and Colonial News - including Threatened Hostilities Between Turkey and Russia; Imperial Parliament; Church, Universities, &c.; Camp of Satory, Near Versailles; Friern Manor Dairy Farm; The Court; Irish Members of the Government; Metropolitan News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; The Oxford Installation (The Right Hon. The Earl of Derby); Fine Arts; Music; The Theatres; The Camp at Chobham; Chess; Provincial Intelligence; National Sports; Royal Thames Yacht-Club Schooner Match; Remains of Old Shelton Hall, The Birthplace of Elijah Fenton, the Poet; Great Fire at the Gutta Percha Company's Works; Royal Confirmation; The New Chamberlain of the City of London (Sir John Key); Opening of the Portland Suspension-Bridge, Glasgow; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Explosion of the "Times" Steamer; advertisements; Ascot Races - Prize Plate.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 33-52; previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-toned; periodic light age and dust spots; rear sheet detached but present and shows periodic small edge chips and short closed edge tears (to blank margins only). Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Russian Aggression Against Turkey; The "North Star" Steam-Yacht; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Church, Universities, &c.; Foreign and Colonial News - including The Threatened Hostilities in the East; Destructive Fire in Derby; Tiptree Farm; The Burmese War; Lowestoft Regatta; short Stamford Races, 1853; The Comedy of "Donna Diana," St. James's Theatre; Menagerie of the Zoological Society, Regent's Park; The Court; Metropolitan News; Provincial Intelligence; Imperial Parliament; Bucharest, Wallachia; Kertch; Russia and Turkey - Random Notes and Sketches Made on the Way to Constantinople, July 1853 (Second Letter); The Theatres; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Chess; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; The Aztec Children; Literature and Art - Conversazione at the Mansion-House; Commercial Travellers' Society's New Schools; National Sports; Ireland; The Chobham Encampment - Pontoon Manoeuvres (with full-page engraving); advertisements; Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 17-32; previously disbound from bound volume; front and rear pages detached but present; pages lightly age-toned; light foxing. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article "City Arabs" and "Home Heathens"; Shipwreck, Terrific Explosion, and Loss of Thirty-Five Lives, at the Calf of Man; Naval and Military Intelligence; Foreign and Colonial News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Provincial Intelligence; Epitome of News, Foreign and Domestic; Destructive Storm at Penzance; Wrecks in the Mersey; The Steamer "Neptune" Off the Coast of Norway; Consecration of the New Church of St. Matthew, Marylebone; Hurricane at Oxford; The Revenue; Church, Universities, &c.; The Court; Railway Intelligence; Metropolitan News; National Sports; Admission of the Public to Apsley-House; Grand Chapter of the Order of Charles III, at Madrid; full-page engraving "Annual Chapter of the Order of Don Carlos III, at Madrid, in the Presence of the King and Queen of Spain"; full-page engraving "The New Ministry - The Cabinet"; The New Cabinet Ministers - Biographical Outlines; Ministerial Opinions from the Hustings; The Re-Elections; Chess; Literature; Music; The New Residence of the Russian Embassy; Testimonial to the Rev. S.F. Ramsey; Goura Victoria Pigeons; The Royal Mail Steam-Ship "Arabia"; A Scene at the Theatre Royal, Jersey; Thomas Wright, The Manchester Prison Philanthropist; The Geological Survey of the United Kingdom; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The New Grammar-School at Lancaster; Marble Statues Discovered in Windsor Forest; advertisements.