Sylvanus urban edward cave (109 resultados)

Paper Cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 74pp + 2 of 3 plates. 8 x 5 inch. Original magazine disbound from a compilation. Still well bound together with part leather to spine but without original exterior paper wrapper (supplied as shown in pic attached). Interior in nice clean condition. No names nor inscriptions. Includes articles on Parliamentary Proceedings, Proceedings of National Assembly of France, Births, Marriages and Deaths.…

Paper Cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 94pp + all 3 plates. Original magazine disbound from a compilation. 8 x 5 inch. Still well bound together with part leather to spine but without original exterior paper wrapper (supplied as shown in pic attached). Interior in nice clean condition. No names nor inscriptions. Includes usual articles on Domestic and International News, Reviews of New Publications, Parliamentary Proceedings, Proceedings of National Assembly of France, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Stocks & Shares prices, Obituaries. Meteorological Table (day by day for the month).…

Paper Cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 94pp + all 5 plates (one folding). Original magazine disbound from a compilation. 8 x 5 inch. Still well bound together with part leather to spine but without original exterior paper wrapper (supplied as shown in pic attached). Interior in nice clean condition. No names nor inscriptions. The fold-out plate of Lamballe is shorter than full page and edges rough-cut. Includes usual articles on Domestic and International News, Reviews of New Publications, Parliamentary Proceedings, Proceedings of National Assembly of France, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Stocks & Shares prices, Meteorological Table (day by day for the month).…

Paper Cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 94pp + all 3 plates (as called for). 8 x 5 inch. Original magazine disbound from a compilation. Still well bound together with part leather to spine but without original exterior paper wrapper (supplied as shown in pic attached). Interior in nice clean condition. No names nor inscriptions. Includes articles on Horrid Massacres in Paris, Dr Blakey on navigation of The Antients, Historical Account of LOCKE family, Middleton Family, Mr Budworth of Brewood, etc as well as usual ones on Domestic and International News, Reviews of New Publications, Parliamentary Proceedings, Proceedings of National Assembly of France, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Stocks & Shares prices, Meteorological Table (day by day).…

Paper Cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 94pp + 2 plates (as called for). 8 x 5 inch. Original magazine disbound from a compilation. Still well bound together with part leather to spine but without original exterior paper wrapper (supplied as shown in pic attached). The folding plate of sigs & letter has some foxing and has been mis-folded but otherwise the interior is in nice clean condition. No names nor inscriptions. Includes articles on as well as usual ones on Domestic and International News, Reviews of New Publications, Parliamentary Proceedings, Proceedings of National Assembly of France, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Stocks & Shares prices, Meteorological Table (day by day). …

Paper Cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 94pp + 2 plates. Original magazine disbound from a compilation. 8 x 5 inch. Still well bound together with part leather to spine but without original exterior paper wrapper (supplied as shown in pic attached). Interior in nice clean condition. No names nor inscriptions. The index includes a plate on Axminster church but this is not present although nothing appears to have been removed. Includes usual articles on Domestic and International News, Reviews of New Publications, Parliamentary Proceedings, Proceedings of National Assembly of France, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Stocks & Shares prices, Obituaries. Meteorological Table (day by day for the month).…

Paper Cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 94pp + all 3 plates (as called for). 8 x 5 inch. Original magazine disbound from a compilation. Still well bound together with part leather to spine but without original exterior paper wrapper (supplied as shown in pic attached). Interior in nice clean condition. No names nor inscriptions. (printers error shows 1790 instead of 1792 on cover). Includes articles on Phlogiston, Universal Measures, Padoucas or White Indians, Sir Hugh Middleton's descendants, etc as well as usual ones on Domestic and International News, Reviews of New Publications, Parliamentary Proceedings, Proceedings of National Assembly of France, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Stocks & Shares prices, Meteorological Table (day by day).…

Other. Octavo, paged 500-552. In clear plastic sleeve with cardboard backing. In Poor plus condition. Spine is exposed text block and remainder of original cover. Original cover lacking. Text block has light age-toning to paper. Illustrated: b&w. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #2. 1384841. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Wraps. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps, July, 1772 monthly issue, (8 x 5 inches), pages 300 through 344 [44 pages]; illustrated with three copper-plate engravings (Somersetshire Edge House, Ships of Taitia, and Two Rare California Animals). Containing: Argument in Support of Property in Slaves; Argument Against Property in Slaves; Account of the buring and rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral; Description of two rare Animals, peculiar to California; Regimen recommended to Patients in the Small Pox, and more. "The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term "magazine" for a periodical. Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as a writer was with The Gentleman's Magazine." A clean, well-preserved example of a SCARCE issue.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. General title + preface (2)- 706 pp - (18pp) index some text illustration Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. Very occasional notes in ink to the lower blank margin, lower blank margin of pp112 torn away, front inner joint cracked along gutter. The contents text block with light age toning, clean and tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf part loss to leather to the top 1/3 of the spine loss to inner lower inner corner of the front board, the binding remains tight.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback, half-leather with marbled paper covered boards. 21.5 × 13cm, iv + 584pp, index [14pp]. A bound volume with the six issues from the first half of 1794, each with their own title page featuring St John's Gate in Clerkenwell and printed in double columns. They contain the usual collection of letters, history, architecture, reviews, obituaries, poetry etc and with some fine engravings throughout. This copy with 18 plates and one drawing within the text. It doesn't quite correspond to the plate index as some of the listed images are in fact smaller images on a different plate and bound in a different place (for example Jack turned by Charles II is given as p507, but in fact forms part of the plate at p495). All pictures listed in the plate index can be located within the book, the majority being bound in the correct place. Condition: Good for age. The leather and corners are rubbed, the front joint delicate but holding by the string. The pages are age-toned as expected but the inner binding is secure, and the book remains in strong readable condition. Occasional staining to the margins but these are few and far between.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and 2pp preface 638pp + (16pp) index Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. With 8 maps and 8 plates. Burn mark with soe loss pp189/90 list of deaths etc pp 291/92 not bound in otherwise collated complete. The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, head and tail of spine chipped cracking to spine edge in places some darkening and surface rubbing gilt faded to spine the binding tight.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title 699 pp - (19pp) index. Includes some text illustrations. Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. The contents text block some even browning and age toning armorial bookplate of William Monson to the front paste down the contents tight, Bound in a recent full tan with calf contrasting labels, the binding tight. Samuel Johnson published "London". His important early poem London, an imitation of Juvenal, appeared in May 1738.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. March 1736 - December 1736 and issues January and February 1737 General title and frontis "A Map of the Old World (iv) - 115 -787pp - (17pp) index + 128 pp January and February 1737. Bound with engraved monthly title pages and the general title some erratic pagination collates complete on catch words. Some very occasional ink notes to margins. Contents clean and tight. Rear end paper split along the gutter. Bound in contemporary full tan calf chipping to the head of spine and some loss to lower part of the spine and part splitting to spine edges, the binding tight.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 698 pp - (18pp) index some text illustration + General title and 2pp preface before Supplement lacking plates and folding map Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. Very occasional notes in ink to the lower blank margin. Lacking the folding maps and plates although there is no sign they were ever bound in, the text block with light age toning, clean and tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, light rubbing to the head of the spine, the binding tight. Includes details of events in Georgia and the Spanish invasion.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title + preface (2)- 704 pp - (18pp) index some text illustration and map of Germany Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. The contents text block with light age toning, clean and tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf wear to the head and tail of the spine lacking title the label some rubbing to edges, the binding tight. Includes in the supplement10 pp list of British ships taken by the Spaniards and Ships taken from the Spaniards.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and frontis "A Map of the Garden of Eden" 830 pp - (16pp) index. Page 35/36-part loss to outer edge lower half Bound with engraved monthly title pages some erratic pagination collates complete. Armorial bookplate of Joseph Bowman to front paste down. The contents clean and tight, full contemporary full calf light rubbing to edges and surface rubbing to the spine the binding tight. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title + vii preface, bound before supplement, 660 pp - (16pp) index. Lacking the 2 folding maps, West Indies and Chart Atlantic Ocean, still present Draught of the Castle of San Lorenzo, - Town and Castle of St Augustine and the English Camp, - A plan of the City Harbour of La Vera Cruz, + text plans including full page plan of Cartagena Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. The contents text block with light age toning, clean and tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan light rubbing to edges, the binding tight.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and 2pp preface 639pp + (15pp) index Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, pages 425/26 -429/30 -431/32 duplicated, collates complete. With all maps and plates. Including the 4 folding maps which make up the County round London, also the large folding plan Westminster including New Roads and New Buildings (closed tear). The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, head and tail of spine chipped cracking to spine edge in places some darkening and surface rubbing and gilt faded to spine the binding tight. Includes The growing dispute between Britain and its American colonies. This is particularly significant in hindsight. The volume records complaints arising from the new parliamentary measures regulating colonial trade and imposing duties. By 31 October 1764, The American reports in the volume capture the very beginning of the political deterioration that ultimately led to the American Revolution.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title 698 pp - (18pp) index. 2 folding maps, Map of, The Sa-Porowian Kosaks, and "An Exact Map of the Crim" with explanation notes below, Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. The contents text block with light age toning, clean and tight. Armorial bookplate of Joseph Bowman to the front paste down. Bound in a contemporary full calf some darkening, with rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and edges and corners crack to lower spine, the binding tight. Includes some references to the colony of Georgia.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and 2pp preface 716 pp - (14pp) index text illustration and map of Netherlands. Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. Very occasional notes in ink to the blank margin. The text block with light age toning, clean and tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, light rubbing to spine edges, the binding tight.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and frontis, iv - 778pp + (18pp) index, .at end of July 2nd title" Extraordinary" Poems Bound with engraved monthly title pages and the general title some erratic pagination collates complete on catch words. Some very occasional ink notes to margins. Contents clean and tight. Bound in contemporary full tan calf tight. chipping to the head and tail of the spine some scuffing to the boards in places, a very good copy. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. General title and 2pp preface 641pp + (17pp) index Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. Lacks plate pp49 "An exact view of the Fort of the Isle of Aix", all other maps and plates present some folding, old mark to blank verso of plate pp347 not affecting plate image, some occasional ink contemporary margin notes. The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, the spine with significant loss boards holding on ties spine edges worn binding remains tight. A good copy. Includes British campaign against Louisbourg (Louisburg), Cape Breton, and includes a folding "Plan of the City & Harbour of Louisburg," showing Gabarus Bay, the British landing place, and their encampment during the 1758 siege. Also folding maps of The Old and New World.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Frontis of King George III, general title and 2pp preface 623pp + (19pp) index Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. Lacks plate pp 610 Plan of a new street from London bridge, extra plate not called for at pp 452n 'Fossil Skeleton of an Animal Found in the Allom Rock near Whitby', otherwise all maps and plates present, folding plate pp 164 representation of the engagements between two ships tears to lower edge with no loss. The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, head and tail of spine chipped cracking to spine edge in places. Some darkening to spine a few chips to the leather. The binding tight. . The magazine's 1760 volume September included material on the capitulation of Montreal, and the October issue contained a fold-out map illustrating Amherst's expedition. Also, a folding map June issue, 'A Map of the Icy Sea in which the several Communications with the Land Waters and other new Discoveries are exhibited'. A HISTORY OF BRICKWALL IN SUSSEX AND OF THE PARISHES OF NORTHIAM AND BREDE (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and 2pp preface 643pp + (17pp) index Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. Lacks gathering pp 429 to 436 all maps and plates present, stain to inner blank end paper front gutter paper cracked. The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, head and tail of spine chipped cracking to upper spine edge. Some darkening to spine a few chips to the leather. The binding tight. Quebec and General James Wolfe are among the stories. Wolfe's dispatch of 2 September 1759, describing the difficulties of the campaign against Quebec, was printed in the October issue. And November issue Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 13 September 1759 — Wolfe's British army defeated Montcalm's French forces outside Quebec. Both Wolfe and Montcalm died, and Quebec surrendered shortly afterwards. Includes a map.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and 2pp preface 710 pp - (18pp) index some text illustration including Plan of the Battle of Gladsmuir also a plan of Carlisle Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. Very occasional notes in ink to the blank margin. The text block with light age toning, clean and tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, light rubbing to the head of the spine, and edges the binding tight. This edition gives contemporary reporting of the Jacobite Rising of 1745.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. General title and 2pp preface 606pp + (16pp) index Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination collates complete. With all maps and plates. Includes folding map of West Indies, folding plan of Gibraltar, Jamaica, folding map Portugal (closed tear), folding plan of the Siege of the Havana, folding map of British Empire in Nth America, 4 folding maps at end of Silesia. collated complete. The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, head and tail of spine chipped cracking to spine edge in places some darkening and surface rubbing gilt faded to spine, the binding tight. Includes The capture of Havana, Cuba — one of the major British victories of 1762. The magazine gives an account of the taking of Havana and prints the Articles of Capitulation agreed between the British commanders and Spanish authorities. North America — reports concern British and French interests, colonial affairs and Indigenous peoples, including information about the Mohawk and Seneca and their relations with Britain and France.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, issued in 1791 under the name Sylvanus Urban, contains a wide range of reports and notices from Britain and abroad, including material on early American conflicts, correspondence involving George Washington and Native American tribes, and records of militia losses during the Northwest Indian War, along with commentary on trade, colonial affairs, and debate surrounding the slave trade. Additional entries cover British military campaigns in India, naval activity in Jamaica, and proposals relating to Captain James Cook, alongside an engraved plate depicting Gentoo practices. Good condition, with a leather binding, front cover loose but attached by threads, a secure text block, and pages showing age toning while remaining legible. Octavo (8vo), single volume. Collation: iv, 591, [17] pp. Illustrations: 18 engraved plates. Edition: 1791. References: standard eighteenth century periodical. #50664. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. General title and 2pp preface (5cm closed tear to the General Title ) 628pp + (16pp) Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination but text collates complete some very occasional ink manuscript notes. Lacking the general chart of the globe January issue printed note "part of a general chart intended to be joined to the former parts", plate pp 19 Head of a New Zealander, pp 195 Portrait of the King of France, and road map London to Grimsby etc called for in the Supplement. All other plates present including folding plan of Navigable Canal from Moor Fields to Waltham Abbey (bound upside down), folding plan of Navigable Canal from Coopers bridge to Huddersfield, folding plan of the intended Navigable Canal from Leeds to Selby and other places. The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, some loss to head of spine cracking to spine edge in places the binding tight. One of most important years for the Gentleman's Magazine relating to the American Colonies. Als references to Cooks voyage round the world. Boston Tea Party / tea controversy — reports headed around the "Reception of the Tea-Ships," giving British readers news of the colonial resistance following the d Colonial grievances and the constitutional dispute — discussions of American complaints against British taxation destruction of the tea at Boston in December 1773. First Continental Congress.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. General title and 2pp preface 639pp + (13pp) Bound with the engraved monthly title pages, some erratic pagination but text collates complete. Burn hole to centre upper blank margin pp 481 to 504 10mm x15mm page 504 decreasing to 2mm, touching running title to pp 494 then touching the odd letter also touching the top edge of the folding map of Boston touching ruled line border to upper margin in 3 places. The pages are at the end of the October issue, 3 of the pages covering the "Proceedings of the American Colonies", maybe it was just to much of a shock of the article for the reader! From the plate list on the last page list the plate at pp160 Herculaneum no 12 is lacking, an extra plate not called for pp128 "Dr Johnsons Introduction to a Highland Hut". Maps present on pp 40 folding "A Plan of the Town And Chart of Boston etc. pp 264 folding " A Map of 100 Miles round Boston" pp 416 folding road map York to Lancashire also on pp 416 text map "Plan of the Redoubt and Intrenchment of the Heights of Charles Town, pp 492" folding "A New and Correct Plan of the Town of Boston", pp 612 folding road map London to Cambridge and other places. The text block with light age toning, remains tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf, some loss to head of spine cracking to spine edge in places the binding tight. One of most important years for the Gentleman's Magazine relating to the American Colonies. Includes Lexington and Concord — 19 April 1775. Second Continental Congress — May 1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief — June 1775. Battle of Bunker Hill — 17 June 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms — 6 July 1775.…