The London Magazine or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer Vol. XXVIII for the Year 1759

21x14 cm. Contemporary 1/4 leather with plain boards, rubbed and well worn. Lacks rear endpaper, last leaf of index. Front endpaper torn with loss. 730, [18] pp., 23 maps (13 folding), 4 plates (2 folding). The map of the Seat of War in Germany is detached, the map of the Straits of Gibraltar is mended along one split fold. This volume contains all 12 monthly issues of the London Magazine for 1759 as well as an appendix beyond the monthly issues which recaps the year . The maps include 3 of Canada (Quebec City, the St. Lawrence River, and the Siege of Quebec City), a map of the Lesser Antilles and two of Guadaloupe. There are two maps related to India (Pondicherry and Bombay), other maps and articles. Of particular interest is a map in the text (at page 56) of the vicinity of Fort Duquesne, which is among the earliest maps of the Pittsburgh area. (See Dionne 473, Phillips Maps p. 269, Wheat & Brun 421 for a reissue in a 1761 almanac) The August issue (at p.419) contains "An Account of the Effects of Electricity in Paralytick Cases" by Benjamin Franklin, extracted from Philosophical Transactions, Volume I, part II. See Jolly (Maps in British Periodicals I) 157-179 for a complete listing of the maps.…