The New Wonderful Magazine: Consisting of a Carefully Selected collection of remarkable trials, biographies of wonderful or extraordinary characters, curious histories and adventures, phenomena in nature, the wonders of art, &c., &c. Volume II only.
London: G.H. Davidson, 1854. Hardcover. Remarkable trials and extraordinary people and events are described here, including: Alexander Selkirk, the Original of Robinson Crusoe; the Bermondsey Tragedy; Edward Gibbon Wakefield, trial for abduction of an Heiress; Governor Wall, tried and executed for offenses committed twenty Years previously; James Watson (et al) tried for High Treason; John Bellingham Trial and execution; Louis XVI, his trial conviction and execution; Mutiny of the Bounty; and Witches and Wizards, a complete chronological list of trials and executions of reputed wizards, witches and conjurers...
Wonderful lithograph frontispiece full length portrait of the transgender French spy, diplomat and soldier, titled "Mademoiselle de Beaumont, or the Chevalier d'Eon", a composite portrait of the renowned spy split down the middle with the left half dressed in elegant female attire, the right half dressed in male attire. In the 1760s the Chevalier was a male spy for the French king while he served as secretary to the French ambassador to Russia, and a Dragoon captain; by the late 1770s d'Eon was a writer, an intellectual and female.
Volume II of 2. 8vo, viii, 756pp, portraits and illustrations. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library, with their stamp on the title page. Tan library cloth binding with leather gilt spine label, and paper label. Cloth sunned at spine, covers dusty; title page with splits at gutter, chipped at foredge. OCLC: 29136530 (5 copies). Good + overall. Item #23985
Price: $375.00