Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. Vol. 10. January - June 1752, plus supplement, containing The Life of Mr. William Congreve, besides many other Articles in Geography, History, Mathematics, Mechanics, Philosophy, etc., and A copious Alphabetical Index to this Tenth Volume. Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Music, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages. Philosophy, Mathematics, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanics, Trade, Navigation, Architecture. And other Arts and Sciences; Which may render it Instructive and Entertaining to Gentry, Merchants, Farmers and Tradesmen; to which occasionally will be added, An Impartial account of BOOKS in several Languages, and of the STATE OF LEARNING in Europe; Also of the

Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Dark brown polished full morocco leather binding, with decorative blind embossed paneled boards, raised banding to spine and red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Red speckled page edges. In very good condition. Later fine binding. A couple of minor handling/rubbing marks to boards else clean and smart. New endpapers. Binders label to front ?The Limbury Bindery, Llandrindod, Wells.? Pages very good, some usual minor foxing spots and handling marks else overall all very clean and tight. Plates at p177 & 204 (& 324) have tape repairs to folds. Lacks 2 maps and 1 plate as stated. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 329 pp. Plus Index. Illustrated with 23 (ex.26) B&W engraved plates, Lacks: 2 maps Leics. p20, Lincs. p145, one plate ? Mathematical Instruments? p228, and part of the Lincoln panorama at p204. Illustrations include: Sir Francis Bacon, Solar Microscope, Belvoir Castle, Diving-Bell, Camera Obscura, Three Automatons, Ventilators, Dryden, James I, Paper and Corn Mills.

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Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. Vol. 10. January - June 1752, plus supplement, containing The Life of Mr. William Congreve, besides many other Articles in Geography, History, Mathematics, Mechanics, Philosophy, etc., and A copious Alphabetical Index to this Tenth Volume. Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Music, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages. Philosophy, Mathematics, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanics, Trade, Navigation, Architecture. And other ...

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London, Published Monthly according to Act of Parliament by JOHN HINTON at the King?s Arms in Newgate Street, 1752 1st

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T.A. PROCTOR T/A THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP,established 1976. Our shop in Puddletown,Dorset has been open since 1978. We are situated in the heart of the "HARDY COUNTRY", just outside Dorchester on the Road to Bournemouth. Our miscellaneous stock is interesting and changes frequently. We also stock some antique maps (mostly of Dorset) and some engravings of mostly local views. Member of ABA and ILAB.

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