The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. Volume IX. For the Year MDCCXXXIX

London: Printed by Edw. Cave, jun. at St. John's Gate, 1739. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. A good ex-lib copy with the usual internal markings: a few stamps and a pocket; boards detached, chipped, and scuffed; spine lacking headband, thin dampstain along top and/or fore edge on most leaves, detached free rear end-paper.. [ii], 698, [1], [17] pp. Illus. with 3 b/w maps, 2 of which are folding, 6 musical scores and wood-cuts. 8vo. Complete set of 12 issues with supplement.
Plates include:
1. An Exact Map of the Crim, (Formerly Taurica Chersonesus) Part of Lesser Tartary, the Sea of Asoph, and the adjacent Country of the Kuban Tartars, as laid down by the Czarina's Geographers; exhibiting the March of the Russian Armies against the Crim Tartars, in the War begun with the Turks 1736.
2. Map of part of Russia and Turkey: incl Pt. of the Russian Ukrain, The Sa-Porowian Kosaks, etc.
3. Map of the Coast from the Ireland and Lizard Point to Gibraltar.

Also numerous musical scores.

Pagination: [2], [2], 3-51,[1], [2], 55-108,[2], 111-164, [2],167-219, [1], [2], 223-276, [2], 279-331[280 misnum 380], [1], [2], 335-387, [1], [2], 391-443, [1], [2], 447-499, [1], [2], 503-555 [553 misnum 543], [1], [2], 559-607, [[1], [2], 611-662 , [2], suppl 665-698, [1], [17] pp.

"Cave began the Gentleman's Magazine in January 1731, thus giving birth to one of the major publishing forms of the modern era, the magazine. It began modestly as a digest of London newspapers and periodicals for country customers (an orientation signaled in Cave's editorial pseudonym, Sylvanus Urban), but it went on to prosper and survive until 1922." (ODNB). Jolly. Maps in British Periodicals: GENT-3.