The Penny Magazine, No. 426,
November 24, 1838, 8pp., London, Charles Knight & Co. The front page bears an engraving
of a scene at Fossvollum, Iceland, accompanying an article, "Cataract at Fossvollum--Iceland"
(1 page plus illustration); then, "On Artificial Gems" (1 page); a great paean to the "Character
of Washington" (1/2 page); "The Museum at Boulogne", accompanied by four illustrations, one of
a medal struck by Napoleon to commemorate the Invasion of England, another, of a medal, bearing
a portrait of Catherine de Medici, struck to commemorate the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, the
last two showing ancient drinking vessels (1 1/2 pp.); a history, from 339 B.C., of Demosthenes
(1 1/2 pp.); a one-page article "On the Commercial Value of Tulips in the Seventeenth Century";
and, last, a one-page article on "The Kingfisher, or Nest of the Halcyon".
Tiny sewing holes, where it was formerly bound, otherwise VF.......$25.00
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