16 MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. LETTERS OF A GERMAN COUNTESS: Written during her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Nubia, &c., in 1843-4. BY IDA, COUNTESS HAHN-HAHN. Translated by H. EVANS LLOYD, Esq. In 3 vols., small 8vo. Price 31s. 6d. bound. "A charming book."-Athenæum. "We place this book in the very first rank of works of its class. It is full of genius, yet softened by feminine feeling and sentiment.”— Britannia. THREE YEARS IN CONSTANTINOPLE; OR, DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE TURKS. BY CHARLES WHITE, Esq. Second and Cheaper Edition, in 3 vols., with 34 Illustrations, from Original Drawings, price 24s. bound. "Mr. White's useful work is well worthy of the attentive study of all who would know Turkey as it is. It may be safely taken as a text book, with respect to Turkey, its people, and its manners. Full, searching, complete, it will dissipate many prejudices, dispel many vague notions popularly entertained of the much maligned Turks.”Morning Chronicle. LORD LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON THE HOLY LAND. Third Edition, revised and corrected, in two vols., small 8vo, with Illustrations, 24s. bound. "Lord Lindsay has felt and recorded what he saw with the wisdom of a philosopher, and the faith of an enlightened Christian.”—Quarterly Review. ADVENTURES IN GEORGIA, CIRCASSIA, AND RUSSIA. By Lieut.-Colonel G. POULETT CAMERON, C.B., K.T.S., &c. Employed on a Special Service in Persia. Two vols., small 8vo, price 21s. bound. "Colonel Cameron had many facilities afforded him while in Russia of seeing every thing worth seeing, and his racy manner of telling what he has observed is sure to recommend his book to the general reader. Personal adventures have a peculiar charm for the seekers after amusement; and they may seek with confidence in pages that tell of that favoured region of beauty and gallantry that supplies the harems of the East with the matchless beauties of Georgia, and in the invincible tribes of Circassia furnishes an armed force that sets at nought the gigantic resources of the greatest military power in the world."-New Monthly. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. PETERSBURGH AND MOSCOW; A VISIT TO THE COURT OF THE CZAR. TRAVELLING SKETCHES. BY MRS. TROLLOPE. TRAVELS IN KASHMERE, 17 The Countries adjoining the Mountain Course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, North of the Punjab, with Observations on the late Events in Affghanistan. BY G. T. VIGNE, ESQ., F.G.S. Two vols., 8vo, with a valuable Map, engraved under the sanction of the Hon. East India Company, and Twenty-two Illustrations. Price 288. bound. "These volumes place their author in the foremost rank amongst the adventurous travellers who have explored the jealous regions contiguous to the British Indian Empire, in the condition of which we have reason to feel so deep an interest."-Herald. A JOURNEY OVERLAND FROM INDIA ACROSS THE DESERT. BY MAJOR AND MRS. GEORGE DARBY GRIFFITH. Two vols., post 8vo, with Twenty-one Illustrations. Price 21s. bound. "We cordially commend this work to the patronage and perusal of all who desire to be informed of all that is necessary to be known of the countries through which the traveller passes in proceeding to India by the overland route. To ladies the instructions and cautions supplied by this work will be really valuable.”—Globe. EGYPT UNDER MEHEMET ALI. BY PRINCE PUCKLER MUSKAU. In two vols., with Portrait, &c., price 16s. bound. Orders should specify "COLBURN'S EDITION LLOYD." TRANSLATED BY 18 MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. NARRATIVE OF A TEN YEARS' VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY ROUND THE WORLD, OF H.M.S. ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE, UNDER THE COMMMAND OF CAPTAINS KING AND FITZROY. In Two large Vols. 8vo, with Maps, Charts, and upwards of Sixty Illustrations, by Landseer, and other eminent Artists, price 21. 18s. bound. "One of the most interesting narratives of voyaging that it has fallen to our lot to notice, and which must always occupy a distinguished space in the history of scientific agitation.”—Quarterly Review. These volumes detail the various incidents which occurred during the examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the Globe, and add considerably to our knowledge of Hydrography, Geography, and Natural History, and of the Habits, &c., of the Aborigines. There will be found in them the materials of two distinct works, embracing every thing worthy of notice in the expeditions during a period of nearly ten years. The first volume by Captain P. P. 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In the volumes notices will be fond of the Cape Verd, Falkland, and other Islands in the Atlantic Ocean of the coasts of South America, from Pernambuco to Guayaquil of the Galopagos Islands-the dangerous Archipelago, or Low Islands -Otaheite-New Zealand-Australia-The Keeling Islands-Mauritius-the Cape of Good Hope, &c. N. B. Mr. Darwin's Journal of the Geology and Natural History of the Voyage may be had in a single volume, 8vo, price 18s. bound. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, PERFORMED IN H.M.S." SULPHUR," in 1836-42. BY CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BELCHER, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., &c., COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION. Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Two vols. 8vo, with upwards of 40 Illustrations, price 36s bound. "Of these volumes it is impossible to speak too highly. 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MISCELLANEOUS. ELEGANT PRESENT FOR A LADY. In One Volume 8vo. price 21s. handsomely bound, THE BOOK OF COSTUME; 19 OR, ANNALS OF FASHION, IN ALL COUNTRIES, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY A LADY OF RANK. With between Two and Three Hundred Illustrations. "This splendid book is a work of which every lady, at some period or other has felt the want. It embraces a subject of universal interest, and its varied and various merits, cannot fail to render it a most popular and eagerly sought after acquisition."-Court Journal. "This is a very curious and very picturesque book, well selected and arranged, and profusely embellished with wood-cuts, worked into the pages, representing to the eye of the reader the characteristic toilette of England from the Anglo-Saxon times to the century in which we are living. It is a work which must please and interest every class of readers. It is written, and particularly it is embellished, in a manner which renders it a suitable appurtenance for the drawing-room table. Our ladies will here see, that though English beauty has worn every possible dress through every successive century of our history, it has never been such as to impair or overwhelm their native charms.". Messenger. “This is a happy idea, very happily realised: elegance for those who consider books as a species of elegant furniture-interest for such as take interest in their literary contents-and utility for all who look upon a taste in dress as one of the essentials of female ornamentwhich is equivalent to extending its usefulness to pretty near the whole of the sex. The work takes a very extended view of the toilette, male and female, not only for the present, but for all time: and has this advantage, that, inasmuch as physiognomy and figure have most to do with the matter, the reader is here enabled to form a better estimate of how the design would look reduced to actual wear, by the spirit and animation of the numberless designs scattered over every page. In relation, indeed, to the prevalent fashion of fancy dress balls, the book seems to us to be not only invaluable, but absolutely indispensable, since although most diffuse in relation to English costume from the Saxon to the current time, it is sufficiently and picturesquely descriptive of the rest of the British Isles, the whole of continental Europe, ancient and modern Greece and Rome, Africa, and the great and varied Empires of the East. We have derived considerable information and amusement from turning over its pages, and recommend it as especially designed for the purposes indicated, with a wider interest inseparable from a subject confessedly popular, very ably treated, and most artistically illustrated."- Weekly Chronicle. 20 MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE, A SUFFOLK GIRL. By the REV. R. COBBOLD, of Wortham, Suffolk. Fourth Edition. Complete in one volume, with Illustrations, price only 10s. 6d. bound. "Truth is stranger than fiction. We have here a veritable history with incidents more startling and extraordinary than are to be found in any romance with which we are acquainted."-Norfolk Chronicle. "Compressed into the compass of one volume, this biography will probably become a standard work; for, altogether, Margaret Catchpole was sufficiently remarkable in character and fortune to take her place among the celebrated personages of times past."-Britannia. DEDICATED, BY EXPRESS PERMISSION, TO HER MAJESTY THE Preparing for publication, in 3 vols. small 8vo, with Illustrations, THE HISTORY OF MARY ANN WELLINGTON, THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER, WIFE, & WIDOW. BY THE REV. RICHARD COBBOLD, M.A. Another Narrative of Female Adventure, from the pen of the Author of The History of Margaret Catchpole,' will probably be received by the public with increased interest, on account of the perfect truth of the parrative being within the compass of any one's inquiry. In August last, the Deputy Mayor of Norwich invited the attention of the Reverend Author to the peculiar circumstances in the History of Mary Ann Wellington, who was the daughter of John Wellington, one of the artillerymen at the famous siege of Gibraltar. She married a soldier in the gallant 48th, and accompanied him through all the Peninsular campaigns. Her fortitude in the hour of danger, and her attention to the wounded, were witnessed by many officers still living, who were also aware of the extraordinary adventures in which she distinguished herself. Her husband died in 1844. The widow has since fallen into distress. She is greatly respected by all who know her in the city of Norwich, where she still resides. Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and His Grace the Duke of Wellington, have all been tem porary benefactors to her; and her Majesty the Queen Dowager has most graciously consented to accept the dedication of her History. The price of the work will be One Guinea to Subscribers, who are respectfully requested to send their names and addresses to the Publisher, Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street, London. |