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Title: Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Containing News, Letters [Etc, Etc] and Other Arts and Sciences, Which May Render It Instructive and Entertaining to Gentry, Merchants, Farmers and Tradesmen, to Which Will Be Added an Impartial Account of Books in Various Languages... Volume 26 and 27. Two Volumes in One, Covering the Year 1760
Description: London, John Hinton, [, 1760. Hardcover. Contemporary boards, scuffed and with no backstop lettering. Corners and edges bumped and worn, but otherwise in very good condition, tight and complete. Contains all of the folding plates and single page plates called for in the "Directions to the Binder", except for one single page plate: "Chinese Quail". All of the plates are in very good condition, with no tears or stains except for the two mentioned below. Folding plates: Map of "Parts of Sweden, Russia, Germany, Poland, and Denmark bordering on the Baltic Sea" (colored); map of "Countries Bordering on the Western Parts of the Mediterranean" (colored); "Plan of the Battle of Tonhausen"; "Sussex Survey"; "Mylnes New Bridge from Black Fryers" (some staining); "Battle Abbey in Sussex"; "Boxgrove Priory"; "Torments Inflicted by the Dutch on Amboyna" (mended tear); "Map of all Countries Bordering on the Eastern Part of the Mediterranean" (colored); "Warwickshire"; "View of the City of Coventry"; map of "East Part pf England with Parts of Flanders and Holland bordering on the German Ocean (colored); "Royal Vault under King Henry VII's Church, Westminster Abbey"; "View of Warwick Castle"; "Battle of Septitz". Single page plates: Frontis. "Who am I.."; "Edward Russell, Earl of Oxford"; "Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester"; "Coins of King Charles II"; "James II"; "Propagation by Bud and Branch"; "George Friedrich Handel"; "Some Curious Insects Magnified by Microscope"; fronts.: "From Every Blast of War's Contagious Breath.."; "Rhinoceros Beetle (colored)"; "Sr. Edward Hawke"; "Hinton at the King's Arms"; "Models for Constructing Tide-Mills"; "Charles, Earl of Sunderland"; "Problems for Measuring Distances and Proofs of a Vacuum"; "Thomas, Lord Herbert"; "Richard Mead"; "Experiment on the Divisibility of Matter." ]. Two volumes in one, separately paged. .

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