~~Over 230 Years Old!~~

~ With 15 of 16 Copperplate Engravings; Several From Captain Cook's Voyage ~

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure

Containing
News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Music, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages, Criticism, Translations, Philosophy, Mathematics, Husbandry, Gardening, Cooking, 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 Leaning in Europe:
Also of the Stage, New Operas, Plays and Oratorios:
Vol LXXV

London:  William Bent

~MDCCLXXXIV~
~1784~
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Octavo.  386 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in quarter tan calf, with marbled paper covered boards.  The binding is rubbed, and the boards show some normal scuffs.  Raised bands on the spine.  A little chipping at the headcap.   Prior owner's signature "T. Smith / 1786" on the front flyleaf in a fine hand.  There is some foxing to the text.  Some offsetting to the paper on the pages opposite the engravings.  This volume is has 15 of 16 plates, LACKING the Chart of the Northwest Coast of America.  This volume runs from July to December, 1784 and contains the supplement and the Index at the rear.

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Plates in This Volume
  • Frontispiece
  • Pouloha, King of the Friendly Islands, and a Woman of Eaoo
  • Head of Captain Cook
  • A young Woman of Otaheite dancing, and another bringing a Present
  • Head of Dr. Johnson
  • A Morai in Atooi
  • Head of William V, Prince of Orange
  • A Man and Woman of Nootka Sound
  • Head of Mr. Chesselden
  • Arms of Earl Bathurst
  • Man and Woman of Prince William's Sound
  • Perdix transformed into a Partridge
  • Man and Woman of Oonalashka
  • Orlando Furioso, Plate X
  • Chart of the North West Coast of America  (LACKING)
  • Story of Minerva and Arachne.

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