The ANALECTIC MAGAZINE, JANUARY to JUNE 1814/PHILADELPHIA/LEATHER/6 ISSUES/RARE

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The ANALECTIC MAGAZINE, JANUARY to JUNE 1814/PHILADELPHIA/LEATHER/6 ISSUES/RARE THE ANALECTIC MAGAZINE CONTAINING SELECTIONS FROM FOREIGN REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES, OF SUCH ARTICLES AS ARE MOST VALUABLE, CURIOUS, OR ENTERTAINING. VOLUME III ONLY. 6 BOUND ISSUES FROM JANUARY THROUGH JUNE, 1814. Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1814. Rare.A solid First Edition leatherbound book containing 6 months of the famous Analectic Magazine from Philadelphia. This book is solid and the text is complete and there are 4 illustrated plates. Published more than 190 years ago, this book has long been out of print and it is now very scarce. Another original edition is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the text (Works Right Honourable Edmund Burke: "To deal in words and acts, which are matters rather of progression and proficience, than of magnificence and memory, to endow the world with sound and fruitful knowledge; and to be conversant not only in the transitory parts of good government, but in those acts which also are in their nature permanent and perpetual,' were, in the esteem of Lord Bacon, the noblest exercise and employment of man. In adopting this test of merit, and applying it to Mr. Burke, we find him not inferior to Lord Bacon's standard of worth and usefulness."It rarely happens that minds possessing the faculty of philosophic and speculative disquisition are endured also with the qualities required for public business. The tranquil exercitations of the closet or academy are soon choked with the dust of the camp, or stunned with the clamour of the forum. And of still rarer felicity is that conspiracy of god luck which so shapes the course of an individual in whom the talents of the scholar, the philosopher, and the statesman, are united, as to afford them equal Culture, and equal opportunity of display..."Contents include: January: Works of Right Hon. Edmund Burke; Eulogium on the late Dr. Bush; Biographical sketch of the late Lieut. Aylwin; Accident at Felling Colliery; Description of Pompeii; Poetry: Battle of Erie; Literary intelligence; etc. February: Review of Pike's Exploratory travels; Idea of a true patriot; Traits of Indian character; Opinions of the late J. H. Tooke; Poetry: Patriotic stanzas; Sequel to the Butterfly's ball; etc. March: Comedies of Aristophanes review; Biography of Samuel Adams; Anecdotes of Battle on Lake Erie; Poetry: Bride of Abydes; Timid love; Domestic literature; Scientific intelligence: Freezing of alcohol; Literature and the arts; etc. April: Review of Bland's Greek Anthology; Biographical and critical sketch of Fisher Ames; Poetry: Hallow my Fancie; Violet; Scientific and literary intelligence; etc. May: Review of Essays on the pleasure of literary composition; Biographical memoir of Oliver Ellsworth; History of James Mitchell; Arab Pirates; Poetry: Return of spring; Kitten; Literary intelligence; etc. June: Review of Michaud Histoire des Croisades; Hours of idleness; Notices of life and writings of William Clifton; World before the flood; Poetry: Norman horseshoe; Literary and scientific intelligence; etc. According to wikepedia: "The Analectic Magazine (1813â1820) was published in Philadelphia by Moses Thomas. [1 ] Some issues contained reprinted articles from the British press. Washington Irving served as editor 1813-1814. [2 ] "The first lithograph ever made in America is in this magazine for July 1819. It represents a woodland scene — a flowing stream and a single house upon the bank. It was made by Bass Otis ."..."---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Very Thick Octavo - sized leather book; 526 pages of text, extra decorative title page, and 4 full-page plates. Good condition: no writing or markings in text; fraying and chipping, tears and edgetears, a couple pages ripped out; owner's bookplate on front pastedown: "Lawrence C. Hickman"; scattered foxing and light browning in text and on endpapers. Original boards with fraying to edges, scuffing ... read more

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