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Much on the Georgia alligator & how Oglethorpe treated them...
Much on the Georgia alligator & how Oglethorpe treated them...
Item # 673177
THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, London, August, 1749
Articles within include: "Consequences of Relaxing the Laws against Suicide" "Description & Use of a New Electrometer" with an illustration; "Description of a New Water Bellows".
"Different Crocodiles" is about the animal in Georgia, one bit noting; "...Of reptiles, the crocodile, which seems to be the chief, abounds in all the rivers of Georgia; they call the alligators. I have seen some of these, I believe, 12 foot long..." with more on them.
Also: "...When Mr. Oglethorpe was first at Savannah, to take off the terror which the people had for the crocodiles...he had him brought up to the town & set the boys to beat him with sticks, the creature gaping & blowing hard but had no heart to move..." and more.
Near the back is the "Historical Chronicle" which has a report datelined from Boston, July 10, concerning events in Nova Scotia and Louisbourg.
One of the two plates called for is present, lacking the map of St.Petersburg.
Complete in 48 pages, 5 by 8 inches, full title/contents page, very nice condition.
A very nice pre-Revolutionary War magazine from the "mother country" with a wide range of varied content. This was the first periodical to use the word "magazine" in its title, having begun in 1731 and lasting until 1907.
Articles within include: "Consequences of Relaxing the Laws against Suicide" "Description & Use of a New Electrometer" with an illustration; "Description of a New Water Bellows".
"Different Crocodiles" is about the animal in Georgia, one bit noting; "...Of reptiles, the crocodile, which seems to be the chief, abounds in all the rivers of Georgia; they call the alligators. I have seen some of these, I believe, 12 foot long..." with more on them.
Also: "...When Mr. Oglethorpe was first at Savannah, to take off the terror which the people had for the crocodiles...he had him brought up to the town & set the boys to beat him with sticks, the creature gaping & blowing hard but had no heart to move..." and more.
Near the back is the "Historical Chronicle" which has a report datelined from Boston, July 10, concerning events in Nova Scotia and Louisbourg.
One of the two plates called for is present, lacking the map of St.Petersburg.
Complete in 48 pages, 5 by 8 inches, full title/contents page, very nice condition.
A very nice pre-Revolutionary War magazine from the "mother country" with a wide range of varied content. This was the first periodical to use the word "magazine" in its title, having begun in 1731 and lasting until 1907.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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