A handsomely preserved, well-handled volume with excellent content. Also includes mentions of George Whitefield, John Wesley, attacks against and defenses of the Methodists, etc. 

Contents include: The Vogue of Free Masonry in Edinburgh; Epitaph of a Child Killed by Procured Abortion in Order to Bide the Mother's Shame who had been Debauched - Supposed to have been Spoken by the Mother; Chimney Sweepers and Ministers Compared; Observations on the Sun's Eclipse; Astrologers Consulted and Credited; What is Reason? On the Destiny of Infant Souls; An Immediate Declaration of War Impolitick; Persons who Follow Mysteries fall to Bigotry; The Irish Riot on Saint Patrick's Day; Vain Resolution against Woman; A Housekeeper more Expensive than a Wife; On the Insurrection of Negroes in South Carolina; Shakespeare's Lover's Complaint; A Remarkable Case of Physic; Celibacy Proved a Breach of Morality and Religion; Why Printing Houses Called Chapels; Long Delay of the War Justified; God's Institution of Baptism; The Register Bill Tends to Enslave Freeborn Subjects; To the Author of Common Sense; The Life of Admiral Sir Francis Drake [series]; On Angling; Kouli Kan's Success against and Treaty with Mogul; Occultations of Jupiter; Drake Attacked by Indians; Danger of England becoming a Province of France; On Medicinal Secrets; Printers and Craftsmen Miserably Harassed; etc. 

Song [with music] A Dialogue between Death and a Dying Person, by Mr. Parrat [p.88]; Plan for the Town of Porto Bello [Panama, p.144]; A Plan for the City of Havanah [Havana, Cuba, p.149]; English Success in America; A Plan of Cartagena on the Island of Varu [p.201]; A Song Set to Music by Simon Stubley [p.252]; Solo for the Flute [p.409]; Folding Plate of the Town and Castle of St Augustine by Thomas Silver, Extremely Early Map of Florida during the War of Jenkins' Ear [pp. p.577]; etc. 

Urban, Sylvanus. The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year M.DCC.XL. [1740]. London. Edward CAve. 1740. 666pp. + Index

A good - example in attractive, but quite rubbed quarter calf. Very solid. Ffep lacking, begins at general title. Some occasional stains. One small article excised on p.257/8; some minor losses to corner at 360-370. Else generally clean and crisp. All folding illustrations aside from the excellent St. Augustine map lacking [as usual].