Rufus Porter, editor, Scientific American, Volume I. 1845.
Rufus Porter, editor
1792-1884
Scientific American, Volume I. 1845.
Numerous illustrations. 51 (of 52) 4-page issues in one volume, complete. Folio, contemporary ½ calf over marbled boards, rebacked; label stain at head of issue #1, issue #1 detached for exhibition with light conservation and laid in, with a facsimile of the same also laid in, moderate foxing, lacking issue #18. New York, 28 August 1845 to 17 September 1846
During a period of rapid technological advancement, the Scientific American billed itself as "The Advocate of Industry and Enterprise, and Journal of Mechanical and other Improvements." It remains a leading science magazine today. No other active magazine in the United States has been in publication longer.
Issue #1 features an illustrated note on "Improved Rail-Road Cars," another illustrated article on "The Steam-Ship Great Britain," dozens of shorter articles, four poems, a large advertisement featuring George Washington's portrait, three advertisements for daguerreotype artists. Each issue begins with a short illustrated article in the center of the first page, with other smaller illustrations within. Among the more interesting illustrated coverage is "The Travelling Balloon" in issue #4; "Steam-Carriage for Common Roads" in #6; and "Broadway Elevated Railroad" in #16.
Exhibited at the Grolier Club in Steven Lomazow's "Magazines and the American Experience," 2021 (see the catalogue, 2-31). We trace no other examples of Volume I at auction since 1916.
20 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 3/4 in. (52.7 x 37.5 x 1.9 cm.)
Rufus Porter, editor
1792-1884
Scientific American, Volume I. 1845.
Numerous illustrations. 51 (of 52) 4-page issues in one volume, complete. Folio, contemporary ½ calf over marbled boards, rebacked; label stain at head of issue #1, issue #1 detached for exhibition with light conservation and laid in, with a facsimile of the same also laid in, moderate foxing, lacking issue #18. New York, 28 August 1845 to 17 September 1846
During a period of rapid technological advancement, the Scientific American billed itself as "The Advocate of Industry and Enterprise, and Journal of Mechanical and other Improvements." It remains a leading science magazine today. No other active magazine in the United States has been in publication longer.
Issue #1 features an illustrated note on "Improved Rail-Road Cars," another illustrated article on "The Steam-Ship Great Britain," dozens of shorter articles, four poems, a large advertisement featuring George Washington's portrait, three advertisements for daguerreotype artists. Each issue begins with a short illustrated article in the center of the first page, with other smaller illustrations within. Among the more interesting illustrated coverage is "The Travelling Balloon" in issue #4; "Steam-Carriage for Common Roads" in #6; and "Broadway Elevated Railroad" in #16.
Exhibited at the Grolier Club in Steven Lomazow's "Magazines and the American Experience," 2021 (see the catalogue, 2-31). We trace no other examples of Volume I at auction since 1916.
20 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 3/4 in. (52.7 x 37.5 x 1.9 cm.)
