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The chess-playing automaton The Turk...
The chess-playing automaton The Turk...
Item # 675397 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, London, January, 1771
* "The Turk", the famous chess-playing automaton hoax
The most interesting item in this issue is the nearly 1 1/2 page article titled: "A Description of an Automaton Which Plays at Chess". This is the famous "machine" called The Turk, which was a hoax.
Also in this issue are: "Method of Catching and Preserving Insects" which has an accompanying full page plate; "Explanation of the Gad and Meni of Isaiah" "Life of the Late Duke of Orleans" "A Description of Matrimony" "Defence of Mr. Hanway's Account of Persia" and much more.
Present is one of the two plates called for.
Complete in 48 pages, 5 by 8 inches with untrimmed margins, full title/contents page featuring an engraving of St. John's Gate, two small library stamps at the bottom of interior pages, nice condition.
A very nice magazine from the "mother country" not long before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War 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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