April 12, 2024
1771 Gentleman's Magazine: MAPS of THAMES & CANALS • BIRDS • AMERICA &c.
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLI [41]. For the Year MDCCLXXI [1771]. London: Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, [1771]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + 608 + [16] pp.; with numerous in-text charts, tables and woodcut illustrations, plus 21 copper-engraved plates and maps, thirteen of of which are folding.Notable and/or curious features include: Nine folding maps and plans related to the RIVER THAMES and CANALS: Map of the Thames from Maidenhead to Mortlake; Map of the Thames from Reading to Maidenhead, and a Canal from Reading to Monkey Island; Profile or Section of the River Thames from Boulter's Lock to Mortlake; Plan of the Canal from near Coventry to Oxford; Plan of the Grand Canal from the Trent to the Mersey; etc. "AMERICAN AFFAIRS": a semi-monthly collection of reports, dispatches, letters and other news from New York, Boston, Williamsburg, Charles-Town, South Carolina, St. Augustine, and elsewhere. Three handsome plates of BIRDS: the Iceland Falcon, Cream-coloured Heron, Great White Owl. OTHER PLATES include: an Engine for raising water (folding); View of the Ruins of Osney Abbey in Oxfordshire (folding); Carfax Conduit at Oxford (folding); Design for a Bridge over Yarmouth
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