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AGRICULTURE.

An Account of the Grubber; an Instrument recently introduced into East Lo thian, for pulverising the ground, and diminishing the expense of cultivation. By John Sherreff. 1s. 6d.

ANTIQUITIES.

Outlines from the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Vases. By Sir W. Hamilton. Royal 8vo. 17. 1s.

Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, from the earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances; being an Abstract from the book of Heroes, and Nibelungen Lay, with translations of Metrical Tales, from the old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic Languages. With Notes and Dissertations. 4to. 37. 3s.

The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, illustrated by a Series of Engravings of Views, Elevations, Plans, and Architectural Details of that Edifice also Delineations of the Ancient Monuments and Sculpture. By John Britton, F. S. A. Number I. Medium 4to. 12s. Imperial 4to. 1. Crown folio, 17. 11s. 6d. and Super-Royal folio, 21. 2s.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; to which is prefixed, a Historical Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Ancients. By Thomas Hartwell Horne, Sub-librarian to the Surry Institution. With numerous fac-simile Specimens of early Printing, Printers' Marks, &c. &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 17 8s. Royal 8vo 51. 5s. Olio of Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda, original and selected. By Wm. Davis. 12mo. 5s.

BIOGRAPHY.

A Translation of the First Part of the Memoirs, &c. of Baron de Grimm, for the years 1753 to 1770. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 8s.

Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer, with Original Letters, and Meditations and Prayers, selected from her Journal. 2 Vols. 8vo. 18s. Memoirs of a celebrated Literary and Political Character, from 1742 to 1757. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A. and many of his Learned Friends; an incidental View of the progress and advancement of Literature in this Kingdom during the last Century. By John Nichols, F. S. A. Vol. VIII. 11. 7s. with seven Portraits.

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain; with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions. By Edmund Lodge, Esq. Lancaster Herald. Part 1. Folio, 21, 12s. 6d. Super-royal folio, 57. 58.

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BOTANY.

An Epitome of the Second Edition of Hortus Kewensis, for the use of Practical Gardeners; to which is added, a Selection of Esculent Vegetables and Fruits, cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew. By W. T. Aiton, Gardener to his Majesty. 8vo. 12s.

The Classes and Orders of the Linnean System of Botany; illustrated by select specimens of foreign and indigenous Plants. Part I. royal 8vo. 4s.-Coloured 6s. Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America. By Frederic Pursh. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 16s.

CHYMISTRY.

The Chymical Guide; or, Complete Companion to the Portable Chest of Chymistry; containing full directions for making and using all the different Tests or ReAgents, employed in the Analysis of Natural and Artificial Products. By Reece aud Co. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

COMMERCE.

A Compendium of the Laws recently passed for regulating the Trade with the East Indies; the Duties of Customs and Excise on Goods imported and exported, &c. &c. By Thomas Thornton, of the East India Office, Custom-House. 8vo. 7s.

Water's Calculator; or, the Baltic, American Merchant, Ship-owner, and Captain's Assistant. Third Edition, considerably enlarged, by J. Schofield 8vo. 4s. 6d. The Value and Utility of the Freedom of the Hanse Towns. By J. L. Von Hess. From the German, by B. Crusen. 8vo. 6s.

Review of the Discussion relating to the Oporto Wine Company. 2s. 6d.

The Importance of the Cape of Good Hope, as a Colony, to Great Britain, independently of the advantages it possesses as a Military and Naval Station. By Richard Bernard Fisher, Esq. 3s.

CRITICISM.

The History of Fiction; being a critical Account of the most celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the earliest Greek Romances, to the Novels of the present day. By John Dunlop. 3 vols. post 8vo. 17. 11s. 6d.

DRAMA.

Narensky; a new Serio-Comic Opera, in Three Acts. By M. C. Brown. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Old English Plays: being a Selection of such Plays of the early Dramatic Writers, as are not to be found in Dodsley's or any later Collection. With Notes and Biographical Prefaces. Vol. I. 8vo. 12s. Royal, 17.

Arminius; or, the Deliverance of Germany. By Charles Knight. Fools-cap 8vo. 4s. The Woodman's Hut; a Melo-Dramatic Romance. 8vo. 2s.

Explanations and Emendations of some Passages in the Text of Shakspeare, and of Beaumont and Fletcher. By Martinus Scriblerus. 2s. 6d.

Debtor and Creditor, a comedy, in five Acts. By James Kenny, Esq. 8vo. 2s. 6d. The Drama Recorded; or, a list of Plays from the earliest periods to the present time. 12mo. 7s. 6d.

Intrigue: a Comic Interlude, in One Act. By John Poole, Esq. 1s. 6d.

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EDUCATION.

The Expeditious Arithmetician; or, Preceptor's Arithmetical Class-Book. By B. Danby and J. Long, of Hull. 12mo. 76.

Proceedings of the Glasgow Lancasterian Schools Society, at a Meeting held on the 31st of January, 1814, with Illustrations and Remarks. By Joseph Fox. 8vo. 3s. The Principles of Practical Perspective, on Scenographic Projection; containing various Rules for delineating Designs on plane Surfaces, and taking Views from Nature. By Richard Brown, Architect and Drawing Master. 4to Part I. 10s. 6d. An Introduction to Arithmetic on a System never before published. By George Gregory, of the Free Grammer School, Repton. 3s. 6d.

Geographical Exercises in the New Testament, describing the principal Places in Judea, &c. with Maps, &c. Designed by Wm. Butler. 5s.

Letters of a Village Governess, descriptive of Rural Scenery and Manners; with Anecdotes of Highland Children, displaying the Dawnings of Youthful Genius, and the methods taken to improve it. By Eliz. Bond. 2 vols. 8vo. 18s.

The English Expositor, on a new Plan; peculiarly adapted for those by whom an Expositor or Dictionary is used as a Series of daily Lessons, By J. Lloyd. 2s. Letters addressed to two absent Daughters. By Mrs. Rundell. 3s.

Travels at Home, and Voyages by the Fire-Side; for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons. 2 vols. 6s

The Promoter of Expedition and Ease; a copper-plate Ciphering Book, with the sums set on a new System lately discovered. By Thos. Harvey. 4to. 4s. 6d. An Explanatory Key for the Use of the Tutor. 1s.

Prosodia Græca; sive, Metrorum Græcorum, per Regulas et Exempla, Expositio. In usum Studiosæ Juventutis. Pars I-Also Part II. a Dissertation on the Versification of Homer, and the Use of the Digamma in his Poems; to which is subjoined the first Book of the Iliad, with Notes illustrative of the Rules of Versification. By Geo. Dunbar, F. R. S. E. Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. 8vo. 5s.

New System of Teaching the Art of Writing. By J. Carstair. 8vo. 12s. Life and Death of a Monkey; or, the Village of Alten; a Tale for Young Persons. 6s.

The Teacher's Assistant; or, Arithmetician's Guide. By R. S. M. Thomson. 12mo.

FINE ARTS.

Chalcographiana: the Printseller's Chronicle and Collector's Guide. By James Caulfield. 8vo. 15s.-Large paper, 51. 5s.

Practical Directions for Flower-Drawing, illustrated by coloured Drawings. By Patrick Symes. 4to. 17. 5s.

The Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures; arranged according to Schools, and in Chronological Order; with Remarks, and a particular Description of each Picture. By W. Y. Ottley, Esq. F. S. A. 27. 12s. 6d.-Proofs, on India paper, 51. 5s.

The XVIth Number of the Gallery of Contemporary British Portraits, containing Lord Castlereagh, Earl of Carlisle, Sir N. W. Wraxall, Bart. Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, Richard Cumberland, Esq. Robert Smirke, Esq. R. A. with short Biographical Notices. 17. 5s.-or Proof Impressions, on large paper, 17. 16s.

A Collection of Portraits, sketched from Life, by George Dance, R. A. and engraved by W. Daniell, A. R. A. Nos. XI. XII. folio, 17. 1s.

Thurston's Illustrations of Lord Byron's Poem of the Corsair. Royal 8vo. 5s. 6d. · Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, with Additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the Arts and Sciences, particularly to Zoology, Botany, Chymistry, Mineralogy, and Morbid Anatomy; annexed to which are Examples, selected from well-known Objects in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdom. By Patrick Symes. 8vo. 14s.

GEOGRAPHY.

Account of Canada. By David Anderson. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

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HISTORY.

The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Litera ture for the Year 1813. 17.

Journals of the Sieges undertaken by the Allies in Spain, in the years 1811 and 1812, with Notes. By Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John T. Jones. Illustrated by Plates. 8vo. 18s.

An Inquiry into the History of Scotland, preceding the Reign of Malcolm III. or the Year 1056, including the Authentic History of that, Period. To which is added, a Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths; being an Introduction to the Ancient and Modern History of Europe. By John Pinkerton. With a Plate and six Maps. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 16s.

The Chronicles of Scotland; published from several old manuscripts. By Robert Lindsay, of Pitscottie. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 1s.

History of Ireland, from the earliest Period to the present Time. By Stephen Barlow. A. M. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 1s.

A Literary History of the Middle Ages: comprehending an Account of the State of Learning, from the Close of the Reign of Augustus, to its Revival in the Fifteenth Century. By the Rev. Joseph Berington, 4to. 21. 2s.

LAW.

The Origin, Object, and Operation of the Apprentice Laws. 8vo. 2s.

Proofs of the Necessity of the Repeal of the Act of 5th Elizabeth, cap. 4. commonly called the Statute of Apprentices. 8vo.

Index to the Statutes at Large. By John Raithby, Esq. 4to. 37. 3s.-3 vols. 8vo. 37. 6s.

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MATHEMATICS.

Forms for the Ready Calculation of the Longitude, with the Tables published by Joseph de Mendoza Rios, Esq. F. R. S. Folio. 4s.

The Elements of Plane Geography; containing the first Six Books of Euclid, from the Text of Dr. Simpson, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow; with Notes, Critical and Explanatory. To which are added, Book VII. including several important Propositions which are not in Euclid; and Book VIII. consisting of Practical Geometry; also Book IX. of Planes and their Intersections; and Book X. of the Geometry of Solids. By Thomas Keith. 8vo.

10s. 6d.

MEDICINE.

Celsus de Medicina, ex recensione Targæ, curâ Adami Dickinson. 12mo. 9s. Inquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life. By John Abernethy, F. R. S. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

Observations on Diseases of Females. By Charles Mansfield Clarke. Illustrated by Copper-plates, Part I. royal 8vo. 11. 1s.

A Treatise on Hernia. By Antonio Scarpa. Translated from the Italian, by John Henry Wishart. 8vo. 16s.

Commentaries on the Treatment of the Venereal Disease, particularly in its exasperated State. By Edward Geoghegan. 8vo. 6s. 6d.

An Essay on the Prevention and Cure of Insanity; with Observations on the Rules for the Detection of Pretenders to Madness. By George Nesse Hill. 8vo. 12s.

An Account of Baths, and of a Madeira House, at Bristol; with a Drawing and Description of a Pulmometer; and Cases, showing its Utility in ascertaining the State of the Lungs in Diseases of the Chest. By Edw. Kentish, M. D. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Results of Experience in the Treatment of Cases of Defective Utterance, from Deficiencies in the Roof of the Mouth, and other Imperfections and Mal-conformations of the Organs of Speech. By John Thelwall, Esq. 8vo. 5s.

Treatise on Hydrocephalus, or Dropsy of the brain. By James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F. R. S. 8vo. 6s.

Letters to the Duke of Kent on the efficacy of equable and artitificial Temperature in the Treatment of Consumption. By Thomas Sutton, M. D. 8vo. 2s.

An Index to the Anatomical, Medical, Chirurgical, and Physiological Papers contained in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from 1665 to 1813; chronologically and alphabetically arranged, with brief Explanatory Remarks. 4to. 10s. 6d.

A Practical Account of the Fever commonly called the Bilious Remittent, as it appeared in the Ships and Hospitals of the Mediterranean Fleet, with Cases and Dissections. By William Burnett, M. D. Physician to the Fleet. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Lectures on Inflammation, exhibiting a View of the general Doctrines, Pathological and Practical, of Medical Surgery. By John Thomson, M. D. F. R. S. E. 14s. Practical Essay on the Diseases of the Absorbent System. By William Goodlad. 8vo 7s. 6d.

Veterinary Medicine and Therapeutics. By W. Peck. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

An Essay on Medical Economy, comprising a Sketch of the State of the Profession in England, and the Outlines of a Plan calculated to give the Medical Body in general an increase of Usefulness and Respectability. 6s.

MINERALOGY.

An Account of the Basalts of Saxony, with observations on the Origin of Basalt in general. By J. F. Daubuisson. Translated, with Notes, by P. Neill, F. R. S. E. and F. L. S. With a Map of the Saxon Erzgeburge, from Petri. 8vo. 9s.

A Manual of Mineralogy. By Arthur Aikin, Secretary to the Geological Society. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society; with 19 Engravings. Vol. II. Part I. for the Years 1811, 12, 13. 12s.

MISCELLANIES.

Glances at Character. 12mo. 10s. 6d.

Letters to Lady Hamilton, with a Supplement of interesting Letters by distinguished Characters; by Lord Nelson. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s.

Letters upon the Writings and Character of J. J. Rousseau. By Madame La Baronne de Staël. 8vo. 6s.

View of French Literature during the Eighteenth Century. 8vo. 8s.

A Narrative of the Origin and Proceedings of the Independent Debating Society in Liverpool. By John Wright, President. 1s. 6d.

The Inquirer, or Literary Miscellany. Nos. I. II.

8vo. 4s. each.

Annals of the Poor; containing the Dairyman's Daughter, with considerable Additions; the Negro Servant; and the Young Cottager. By the Rev. Legh Richmond, A. M. Rector of Turvey. 12mo. 7s.

Rights of Literature; or an Author's Appeal to the Legislature. By John Briton, F. S. A. Svo. 3s. 6d.

The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1813. 12mo. 7s.

The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature. Conducted by David Brewster, LL. D. Vol. VII. Part 11. Vol. VIII. Part I. 17. 1s. each.

Proofs of the Mis-statement of Facts contained in an Attack upon the Fidelity and Veracity of the Author of a Tour to the Grande Chartreuse and Alet. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Instructions to Young Sportsmen: to which is added a concise Abridgment of the principal Game Laws. Foolscap 8vo. 5s.

The New Drawing Magazine; being a Selection of Lessons calculated to make the Art of Drawing Easy, and founded upon the Principles of Geometry and Perspective. By James Merigot. Part III. 4to. 7s. 6d.

Klopstock and his Friends; a series of Familiar Letters, written between the Years 1750, and 1803. Translated from the German by Miss Benger. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The School for Good Living; or, a Literary and Historical Essay on the European

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