Universal Magazine Knowledge Pleasure, First Edition (12 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. book contains pages 59-111 only; fair in softcover (most of spine is missing but contents in very good condition; book is set into plain green protective cover) ; over 220 years old; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; Size: 5 x 8".

Disbound. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 48pp + 3 plates. Magazine disbound from a compilation, pages still well bound together. Apart from some age staining (as expected) it is generally in nice clean condition - no deliberate marks. Contains Account of Buckinghamshire (this article is concluded from the October issue & includes fold-out plate. Articles with plates on Electrical Experiments by L'Abbe Nollet, & Plate Glass Making., also many other smaller articles, Last page is Prices for Stocks. Full title from compilation's title page ' The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages, Philosophy, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanics, 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 Stage, New Opera's, Plays, and Oratorio's. Printed Monthly accoding to an Act of Parliament.'.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 48pp + map + 2 plates. Magazine disbound from a compilation, pages still well bound together, generally in nice clean condition - no deliberate marks. Contains fold-out map of Buckinghamshire (a bit stained & small tear at bottom of fold - see pic) and An Account of Buckinghamshire (this article is concluded in the November issue), Articles with plates on Alexander Pope, Gold and Silver Refiners, + article on Col James Gardiner & many other smaller articles, Last page is Prices for Stocks. Full title from compilation's title page ' The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages, Philosophy, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanics, 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 Stage, New Opera's, Plays, and Oratorio's. Printed Monthly accoding to an Act of Parliament.'.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 48pp + map + 2 plates. Magazine disbound from a compilation, pages still well bound together. Apart from some age staining (as expected) it is generally in nice clean condition - no deliberate marks. Contains fold-out map of Bedfordshire and An Account of Bedfordshire (this article is concluded in the September issue), Articles with plates on Silk Windles & Electrical Experiments by L'Abbe Nolet, Also History of Tea, Mariner's Compass, Rainbows & many other smaller articles, Last page is Prices for Stocks. Full title from compilation's title page Full title from compilation's title page ' The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages, Philosophy, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanics, 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 Stage, New Opera's, Plays, and Oratorio's. Printed Monthly accoding to an Act of Parliament.'.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 90pp + map + 5 plates + index to all of vol 1. Magazine disbound from a compilation, pages still well bound together. Apart from some age staining (as expected) it is generally in nice clean condition - no deliberate marks. Some foldoing of corners of last few pages. Contains fold-out map of Map of Cambridgeshire, Articles with plates on Practical Chemistry, Cambridge, the Seasons, Architecture, John Lord Somers. & many other smaller articles, Full title from compilation's title page ' The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: Containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages, Philosophy, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanics, 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 Stage, New Opera's, Plays, and Oratorio's. Printed Monthly accoding to an Act of Parliament.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 380 pages including Supplement + Index. Includes all engraved plates including many fold-out. Brown pigskin spine with decorative boards. Condition is Very Good; leather is split at joints, front hinge is very strong, rear hinge is very weak, losses to leather at spine ends, spine faded, fold-out map at p. 315 is torn with half missing, pages and illustrations are very clean with no foxing, toning, stains or markings. RRGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 384 pages; Bound in 1/4 leather spine and marbled boards with rubbing and wear. This volume is complete with all 16 plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition First Printing. Octavo. 384 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. Prior owner's signature "T. Smith / 1788" 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 14 of 15 plates, LACKING the plate of Hatfield House opposite Pg. 137. This plate also lacks the leaf for pages 138-139, so two pages of text are missing. This volume runs from January to June, 1786 and contains the supplement and the Index at the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition First Printing. Octavo. 384 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 contains 16 of 17 plates, lacking the map of New Holland at page 137. Page 140 has a small tear on the upper edge, near the gutter. This volume runs from January to June, 1787 and contains the supplement and the Index at the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 384 pages; Bound in full leather with light scuffing and wear. Very clean inside pages. It is missing 5 of the 20 plates, These are all Heads of various persons. Page 57, Folding hand colored map of Asia; Page 169, Map of India beyond the Ganges, with the Oriental Islands generally called East India; Page 225, Plan of City & Fortifications & Harbour of Havana, Cuba; Page 296, hand colored plate of Judas Tree.

First Edition of the volume for January through June of 1790, including the supplements. Containing the stated FIRST PRINTING of the Addresses of the Mayor of Alexandria, VA. to George Washington on his leaving his home in Mount Vernon to become President of the United States and of Washington's address to the people in reply. Most probably the first printing in book form of either of the addresses. No earlier printings in book form seem to exist and the Library of Congress shows only the manuscript copy in their holdings. Also containing one of the earliest reports of the mutiny onboard the H.M.S. 'Bounty' and an extensive essay on William Harvey, as well as an essay by Mrs. Piozzi on the present King of Naples. Illustrated throughout. 8vo, contemporary tan calf over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with raised bands and a single red morocco label gilt tooled and lettered. 379, [5 index] pp. A very fresh and well preserved copy, the text still quite clean and crisp, only a hint of occasional spotting, a few old marks by an early reader, including the marking of one small section as "Not Fact". The binding has some rubbing at the tips and edges, two joints starting, but still a firm and solid binding in original state with no evidence of repair or restoration. THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1790; which, with the stated first printing of the address to George Washington and his address to the Citizens of Alexandria also contains "Letters, Debates, Essays, Tales, Poetry, History, Biography, Antiquities, Voyages, Travels, Astronomy, Geography, Mathematics, Mechanics, Architecture, Philosophy, Medicine, Chemistry, Husbandry, Gardening and other Arts and Sciences." At 10:00am on the morning of April 16, 1789 General George Washington left Mount Vernon for the journey north to New York where he would be inaugurated as the first President of the new United States. His first stop was in Alexandria with his former aide-de-camp, Col. David Humphries and the Secretary of Congress, Charles Thomson. At noon he arrived in Alexandria where he took an early dinner at Wise's Tavern with citizens of the town. The address by the Mayor celebrating Washington's service to and love of country was followed by Washington's own address concerning his considerations for his having accepted the honour to be bestowed upon him in New York. Washington had wanted to retire from public life, but agreed to continue to serve the new nation upon the call of its citizenry. Both addresses are moving tributes, one to the man, one to the new nation and its people. Humble in origin, brilliant in effect they are. In the later afternoon hours General Washington was escorted by admirers up the Potomac to Georgetown where he was greeted by a large contingent of the citizenry of that town who escorted him up the Post Road towards Baltimore where he spent the night at Spurrier's Tavern. George Washington's Address: To THE MAYOR, CORPORATION, AND CITIZENS OF ALEXANDRIA[Alexandria, April 16, 1789.]"Gentlemen: Although I ought not to conceal, yet I cannot describe, the painful emotions which I felt in being called upon to determine whether I would accept or refuse the Presidency of the United States.The unanimity of the choice, the opinion of my friends, communicated from different parts of Europe, as well as of America, the apparent wish of those, who were not altogether satisfied with the Constitution in its present form, and an ardent desire on my own part, to be instrumental in conciliating the good will of my countrymen towards each other have induced an acceptance.Those, who have known me best (and you, my fellow citizens, are from your situation, in that number) know better than any others that my love of retirement is so great, that no earthly consideration, short of a conviction of duty, could have prevailed upon me to depart from my resolution, " never more to take any share in transactions of a public nature ." For, at my age, and in my circumstances, what possible advantages could I propose to myself, from embarking again on the tempestuous and uncertain ocean of public-life?I do not feel myself under the necessity of making public declarations, in order to convince you, Gentlemen, of my attachment to yourselves, and regard for your interests. The whole tenor of my life has been open to your inspection; and my past actions, rather than my present declarations, must be the pledge of my future conduct.In the mean time I thank you most sincerely for the expressions of kindness contained in your valedictory address. It is true, just after having bade adieu to my domestic connexions, this tender proof of your friendship is but too well calculated still farther to awaken my sensibility, and encrease my regret at parting from the enjoyments of private life.All that now remains for me is to commit myself and you to the protection of that beneficent Being, who, on a former occasion has happly brought us together, after a long and distressing separation. Perhaps the same gracious Providence will again indulge us with the same heartfelt felicity. But words, my fellow-citizens, fail me: Unutterable sensations must then be left to more expressive silence: while, from an aching heart, I bid you all, my affectionate friends and kind neighbours, farewell! " This volume also contains a series of Picturesque Scenes from Homer's Iliad with handsome engravings; Memoirs of the life and writings of the celebrated physician Dr. William Harvey; and a virtually countless array of stories and reports of "all things instructive and entertaining.".

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Editions. No publisher stated. A bound run of 24 issues of this Glasgow weekly periodical from Wednesday Feb.10th, 1773 to Wednesday 21st July 1773. From 14th July the Magazine is titled "The Glasgow United Magazine or the Weekly Instructor" with pagination starting afresh; the last issue is simply titled "The Weekly instructor" with continuous pagination from the preceeding weeks "Glasgow United Magazine". Probably Vol.2 complete (1-352p) and the last two issues comprise 32 pages. Beautifully professionally bound by Bovill in full leather with new sympathetic endpapers, ornamental spine, headband and red titling. Text is toned with a few spots of browning but generally clean and very good. See scans. Rare.