The Quarterly Review Vol. XLII. January & March, 1830. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1830. First Edition. [8743]
Quarter leather with marbled boards, red leather spine title label, small paper label base of spine with date & volume no., old piece of masking tape across the center. 21 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches), "Special Collection" ink stamp with room no in ink on the ffep & title page & rear end papers, no other library matter. 544 pp., complete, foxing, some light stains. Joints weak with thin cracks. Good. Hardcover.
A collection of scholarly reviews with lengthy discussions of content. Reprinted from British periodicals. Some of the contents of this volume include
Travels in the Interior of Mexico in 1825, 1826, 1827, and 1828. By Lieutenant R. W. H. Hardy, R. N.
Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of
Insanity. By George Man Burrows
A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, by Nicholas Wood
Account of the Competition of Locomotive Steam-Carriages on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
A Bill for preventing the unlawful Disinterment of Human Bodies
Travels in Arabia, by the late John Lewis Burckhardt
Mahomedanism Unveiled; an Inquiry, in which that Arch-Heresy, its Diffusion, and Continuance, are examined on a new principle, tending to confirm the Evidences, and aid the Propagation, of the Christian Faith. By the Rev. Charles Forster
Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds of North America, by George Head
The Rights of the Church of England to her Endowments Vindicated
&c.