1848-LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS-ireland,prague,nineveh @

dec    16 , 1848      ILLUSTRATED  LONDON  NEWS 

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        large illustrated weekly magazine on fine quality paper  - very good clean condition ,  100 % complete - 161 years old , pages are supple, flat and bright   - 16 numbered pages ,  dimensions = 11 x 15.5 inches, a fascinating, elegant, large elephant folio magazine with first hand reportage and illuminations of the philosophy and events of the times , i sell no reproductions ,  i ship worldwide and will combine auctions 

    articles and engravings include

• cover  - voting for the president of the french republic
• articles -
•  the misery in ireland- irish people and the irish landlords - feature article, the pope in gaeta, emperor ferdinand abdicates in austria, the war in hungary, banditry and robbery in lawless mexico,  a chinese catholic priest - john tschu, the norfolk murders, workhouses of ireland, bank of ireland, mr duffy of ireland, the city of prague,  the nimroud sculptures of nineveh, the presidential election in france, peninsular and oriental steam company, staites patent electric light , society of british musicians, evictions of peasantry in ireland, the army in ireland, the war medals - 1793-1814- to the british army - 2 sides of the medal shown - see scan, jerome patirot - in search of the best republic - illustrated by gavarni - chapter VI, the president of liberia ,    
• 1/2  and  1/4  page size engravings - 
• 1/4- the cathedral of brandenburg, prague -
•  the old town, prague - the bridge after the bombardment,
•  schwanthaler the sculptor,
•  1/2 - the embarkation of the president of liberia from plymouth - showing HMS - daphne, sylph, amazon, rosamond 
• full page engravings- 
•  nineveh - the nimroud sculptures at the british museum
• -  the siege and impalement of prisoners
•  the cup bearer to the king,
• the passage of the river,
• the obelisk- some foxing on right side
• 2 page feature -
•  the election of the president of the french republic- with 6 engravings - 2 half page and 4  1/4 page size - pages in very good archival condition -
•  offering the candidates names,
• news boys selling portraits of napoleon,
• hotel of general cavaignac,
•  a bas cavaignac!,
• tearing down the address of napoleon,
• taking the ballot boxes to the hotel de ville 
• the ejectment of the irish tenantry -
• with 2 half page engravings on the page - the ejectment, and , the day after the ejectment in a sod hovel,
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• other regular features - obituaries, court cases, church and university news, metropolitan news, naval and military intelligence, town and table talk on literature- book reviews , national sports, music, the theatres, chess and chess problem, monetary transactions of the week, the markets, births, deaths of prominent people,  marriages, classified ads , epitome of news, weather, the farm, sketches in parliament, law and police reports, bankruptcies, wills and bequests, archaeology, science news, royal institution lectures, echoes of the week,     

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