New London Magazine Volume 4 1788

1788. leather. Original Edition RARE! New London Magazine Volume 4 1788 Publisher-Printing Location: printed for Alex Hogg at the King's arms, London Date and Numbering:1788, all 12 Monthly Issues bound Size and Page Count: 5 X 8 Tall, 716 Pages Condition: Good to Very Good , Half Leather bound with marble paper boards, hinges have been repaired, spine leather cracked with top and bottom edges broken, text block very good, light foxing, 4 pages missing 299-300, 301-2, 573-6, dozen pages woth torn corners or pieces missing, a few pages that are repaired at tears in way past, light water stain lower half of December 1788 -pages 617 to 636-. Portsmouth Public Library stamp on inside of front board, with ink writing on Title page 'Portsmouth Mercantile Library Association March 1862, Joseph Foster' Illustrations Information: Many Copper plates in the 12 month issues, including a frontispiece of Mercury delivering to History and Experience a great Variety of important Productions. Title Page: The New London Magazine An Universal and Complete Monthly Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment A work far Superior to every Old Monthly Publication of the Kind hitherto published, or now publishing. More in quantity, and a much greater Variety of New, Original, and Select Pieces(in Prose and Verse) on every curious and entertaining Subject, together with a greater and more elegant Variety of elegant Copper-Plates, than are to be found in any of the Lower Magazines. Comprehending a clear Vew of the History, Politics, Manners, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Biography, Entertainment, Fashinon, Trade, Philosophy, Poetry and all the various Amusements of the AGE. and Including Among a Multiplicity of other Particular, Letter, Debates, and Dissertations on various Subjects, as well as Essays and curious Productions relating to Music, Geography, voyages, Criticism, Translations, Mathematics, The Navy, Military, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Medicine, Mechanics, Morality, The Stage, Operas, Plays, Oratorios, Navigation, Architecture.... -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian --------- January 1788 Contents: Life of John Hampden The Chances, or Adventures of a Night The Unfortunate Heir Curious View of some of the States of America Authentic Memoirs of the Right Rev. Dr. Beilby Porteus the present Lord Bishop of London of some of the South Sea Islands Statement of Land belonging to the United States of America Account of the Taste, Morals, Manners, Mode of Living, Occupations, and Amusements of the Egyptians Character of the French and Germans illustrated by their Postillions Modern Learning exemplified by a Specimen of a Collegiate Examination of the Properties of a Salt-Box Curious remarks on the customary Time of Eating Account of a Musical Parrot Anecdote of Dr. Lyons, formerly Bishop of Cork Particular Account of the Outrages Committed at Bois le Duc A correct Account of a late Meteor Natural History of the Ferret Polecat and Ferret Essay on some particular Modes of Dress and external Ornaments Remarkable Preservation of the Irish Protestants from the Persecution of Q. Mary Bon Mot of Foote Impartial Review of New Books, etc Mathematical Department Poetry Ode on the Arrival of his Royal Highness Prince William, Son of the Duke of Gloucester, at Cambridge University A Receipt to make a Pastoral Elegy Line sthe the cruel Miss Nancy Huddlestone Isabella Watson's Reply to J. Stocker On seeing Prince Alfred Playing with a Kitten Verses on the Island of St. Helena An Answer to the above by an Islander The Art of War Probablility, or Lines occasioned by the Apprehension of a public Calamity Foreign and Domestic Occurrences Prices of Stocks and Corn Births, Marriages, and Deaths Preserments Bankrupts February 1788 Contents: Life of Rene Des Cartes History of the Parrot Henry Grattan, M.P. Earl of buchan's Discourse to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland City of Tunis Mr. sargeant Natives of the Friendly Islands Westminster Hall etc March 1788 April 1788 May 1788 June 1788 July 1788 August 1788 September 1788 October 1788 November 1788 December 1788