This lot features 3 complete issues of The Columbian Magazine, including the January, February, and March 1788 issues along with a few pages from the April issue. Featured within the text are the following single-page plates:

A. A View of the New Market from the Corner of Shippen & Second-Streets Philada., by James Thackara (6.7 x 3.5").

B. A View of the Lighthouse on Cape Henlopen; Taken at Sea, August 1780, by James Trenchard (6.4 x 3.5"). Significant as the first lighthouse to appear in an American magazine.

C. An East View of the Meeting House in Hollis Street, Boston..., by John Vallance (6.7 x 5.1").

The text contains articles on a variety of topics, including slavery, some fiction, including a part of The Foresters, one the earliest American novels, and patriotic prose. Sadly, only two panels of the rare map of Pennsylvania remain. Disbound. Published by William Spotswood in Philadelphia.

References:

Condition: B

Contents are lightly toned with some dampstains along the edges and minor foxing. One of the meteorological tables is split in half. Disbound.