1848-LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS-the great sea serpent RaRE

oct    28  , 1848      ILLUSTRATED  LONDON  NEWS 

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        large illustrated weekly magazine on fine quality paper  -  good condition ,  100 % complete - 161 years old , pages are supple, flat and bright , some page edges may be rough or have small tears , some mild foxing is present in these magazines - 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  - the great northern railway bridge at bardney
• articles - 
• the railway question, the german riots in new york - hecker, the italian states, german states, jellachich in austria, disturbances in prussia, persia - the death of the shah, defeat of the rebel boers in south africa - boem plaats, the moolraj prepares to fight to the death in multan- india, sirdar chuttutr singh attacks captain abbot, bahawulpoor, ceylon insurrection, hyderabad, the tomb of the prophet jonah in persia, funeral of the earl of carlisle at castle howard- with half page engraving, allhallow even (halloween) - the vigil of all saints day- customs of the ancient festival, the tree kangaroo, the black leopard, the hungarian army before vienna, the french constitution, drunkeness in the army, the cholera, evidences of the former appearance of the great sea serpent , the great american sea serpent - 1817, a fossil sea serpent, irish news - state trials at clonmel, dublin commission of oyer and terminer, release of state prisoners, tenant eviction, a man over niagara falls in a sailboat, the new forest , loss of an emigrant ship - schooner "ann"- bound to quebec, opening of the great northern railway -  with half page engraving - boston,   
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• 1/4  page size engravings -
•   brynlly`s tower in south wales
• scene from the new opera of "leoline" at princess theatre
• half page engravings - 
• procession of the archbishop of paris from notre dame
• funeral of the earl of carlisle at castle howard
• allhallow eve (halloween) by dodgson- bobbing for apples
• a tree kangaroo and a black leopard at regents park
• the new forest - stony cross - rufus`s stone
• the new forest - brokenhurst
• liverpool shipwreck and humane society`s medal - loss of the ocean monarch - 2 engravings - see scan
• full page engravings-
•  the great sea serpent - 2 page feature
• the first page has 2 half page engravings - the great sea serpent as seen from HMS "daedalus", and the great sea serpent passing under the daedalus
• the second page - see scan - has an engraving of the head of the great sea serpent, a diagram of the great sea serpent in full length, and an engraving from 1740 of a sea serpent from egedes work- both pages in good condition  -  VERY RARE

• 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, railway intelligence     

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