Or Natural History of the Birds of the United States; with a Continuation by CHARLES LUCIEN BONAPARTE, Prince of Musignano. New and Enlarged Edition, completed by the insertion of above One Hundred Birds omitted in the original Work, and illustrated by valuable Notes with an interesting Life of the Author, BY SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, BART. F.R.S.E. F.L.S. 3 Volumes 8vo. with a fine Portrait of Wilson, and 97 Plates, exhibiting 363 Figures of Birds accurately engraved on glazed Drawing Paper, and beautifully coloured. In the present highly finished Copies, all the Grounds and Landscapes ELEGANTLY HALF-BOUND MOROCCO, LETTERED, THE TOP EDGES GILT, AT THE VERY REDUCED PRICE OF £4. 4s. The publication price of Copies coloured in the ordinary manner, on unglazed paper, and the grounds uncoloured, was £6. 16s. 6d. in boards, and of Copies finished in the extra style of the present, £10. 10s. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY HAS UNI FORMLY PRESENTED A HIGHLY INTEREST- SONS OF ALL COUNTRIES, even when the A WORK AS HE HAS PUBLISHED IN A NEW "The valuable Notes and interesting Life of Wilson added to this new edition are from the pen of Sir William Jardine, a Naturalist of congenial mind in feeling and talent. THE PLATES ARE BETTER EXECUTED THAN THOSE IN THE AMERICAN EDITION, and the greatest possible attention has been paid to accuracy of colouring. ALTOGETHER WE HAVE RARELY SEEN A MORE VALUABLE WORK ON NATURAL HISTORY, AND NOT ONE MORE ENTERTAINING."-Literary Gazette. "Wilson contemplated Nature as she really is, not as she is represented in books; he sought her in her sanctuaries: -the shore, the mountain, the forest, were alternately his study, and there he drank the pure stream of knowledge at its fountain head."-Swainson. "With an enthusiasm never excelled, this extraordinary man penetrated through the vast territories of the United States, undeterred by forests or swamps, for the sole purpose of describing the native birds." Lord Brougham's Architecture of Birds. OF THE FLORA LONDINENSIS, Originally published by CURTIS, revised and improved by GEORGE GRaves, extended and continued by DR. W. JACKSON HOOKER: comprising the History of Plants indigenous to Great Britain, their Uses, Economy, and various interesting Particulars, with Alphabetical, Linnæan, and other Indexes. The Drawings made by SYDENHAM EDWARDS and LINDLEY. 5 Volumes, royal folio, (or 109 Parts) containing 647 Plates, Exhibiting the full natural size of each Plant, with magnified Dissections of the parts of Fructification, &c. ALL BEAUTIFULLY COLOURE D. Published at £87. 4s. in parts. NOW REDUCED TO £26. 5s. Or elegantly half-bound morocco, top edges gilt, £30. "The singular merit of this splendid and valuable publication is too conspicuous to need our eulogium. The specimens from which the Figures are drawn are uniformly well chosen, and remarkable for their characteristic significance; the colours are vivid and expressive, and the dissections of the Flowers are admirably executed, and will prove more didactic than the lectures of any but very superior teachers. "All the parts of the plant are so well described, the characteristic difference of every species so accurately pointed out, and the minuter parts so fully displayed in numerous and magnified dissections, that no System of Botany can be invented which will not be aided by them; and no lapse of time can occur, when such truth of nature, will not be equally valuable. "The Editor does not confine himself to Botany, but leads the reader into some little acquaintance with the study of the sister science, Entomology, marking, as he speaks of each Plant, the Insects which are usually found to feed upon it.-And where any opening affords an opportunity, the work has its share of elegance and classical treatment of the subject, see Viola odorata, where an illustration of Shakspeare occurs; also, Viola tricolor, Bellis perennis, and many other instances. "This important work is now brought to a close, and may justly boast of unrivalled excellence, undiminished splendour, and unabated accuracy."-Monthly Review. WALLICH PLANTA ASIATICE RARIORES, OR Descriptions and Figures of a select Number of unpublished 12 Parts, imperial folio; containing 300 most beautifully-coloured Plates. Published at £36.---NOW REDUCED TO £25. Or elegantly half-bound morocco, top edges gilt, £27. The most splendid Botanical Work published in this Country. THE DIARY OF THOMAS BURTON, ESQ. MEMBER IN THE PARLIAMENTS NOW REDUCED TO £1. 6s. The very curious and important Manuscript from which these volumes were printed, was discovered among the papers of Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, and owes its publication to the same assiduous Bibliographer who brought to light the Memoirs of Evelyn and Pepys. It was originally announced as the Parliamentary Diary of Edward, Lord Clarendon, the celebrated Historian of the Rebellion, the whole Manuscript being in his Lordship's handwriting, but closer investigation proved it to be the work of Thomas Burton, M.P. for Westmoreland, who, it is conjectured, was employed by Clarendon to take notes of the daily proceedings in Parliament, and communicate them secretly to his Lordship, who was then living abroad with King Charles. "THIS VERY VALUABLE PUBLICATION THROWS GREAT LIGHT UPON INTEREST JNG POINTS OF HISTORY, and contains curious illustrations of manners, at a period respecting which, though much has been written, there is, nevertheless, a great deal still to be made known, as is abundantly proved by the pages before us. The facts which are here divulged are worth a whole host of conjectures, and will be found to tell us more of an age of cant and hypocrisy, than the longest essays or discussions." "THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS DIARY TO HISTORY WILL BE FELT UPON THE SINGLE STATEMENT OF ITS AUTHENTICITY; and were we to fill whole pages with quotations, we could do no more than produce the same conviction on the minds of our readers. We again recommend it as a remarkable accession to our stock of historical materiel.”—Literary Gazette. "These volumes overflow with information respecting the principles and proceedings of the legislature during a most important period of English history. EVERY LIBRARY WHICH PRETENDS TO CONTAIN "From our notice of these volumes, the reader will perceive that they contain much matter which is both interesting and curious."-British Critic. "A VERY VALUABLE DIARY, which deservedly places the editor, Mr. Rutt, among the foremost of those useful and laborious men of letters, to whom the historian owes so many advantages." Monthly Review. A GENERAL HISTORY OF MUSIC, From the earliest Times to the Present, condensed from the Works of SIR JOHN HAWKINS and DR. BURNEY, with Essays on the Lives and Works of Purcell, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Arne, Arnold, Boyce, and other eminent Composers; and a Continuation by Dr. BUSBY, Author of various Works on Music. 2 vols. 8vo. published at £1. 10s. NOW REDUCED TO 10s. DIARY AND MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. AND THE INTIMATE FRIEND OF EVELYN; Comprising his DIARY FROM 1659, commencing immediately before the Restoration, when he sailed with the Earl of Sandwich to bring over the King from Breda, and continued almost uninterruptedly to 1669; CONTAIN ING MUCH CURIOUS MATTER NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OTHER HISTORY OF THAT EVENTFUL PERIOD, and abounding with PRIVATE ANECDOTES OF CHARLES II. AND HIS COURT. To which is added, a Selection from his FAMILIAR CORRESPONDENCE. Edited by LORD BRAYBROOKE. New and improved Edition, 5 vols. 8vo. fine Portraits and Plates (published in 1828 at £3. 10s.) NOW REDUCED TO £1. 10s. in extra cloth boards. "THE WORK BEFORE US IS OF VERY GREAT INTEREST AND CURIOSITY, and gives more clear and undistorted glimpses into the true English life of the times, than all the other memorials of them that have come down to our own. A good deal of what it contains derives, no doubt, its chief interest from having happened 180 years ago: but there is little of it that does not, for that very reason, throw VALUABLE LIGHTS ON OUR INTERMEDIATE HISTORY. Fortunately the author was, from the very beginning, in immediate contact with persons in high office and about court, and seems to have been possessed of the most extraordinary activity, and the most insatiable and miscellaneous curiosity that ever prompted the researches, or supplied the pen of a daily Chronicler. He FINDS TIME TO GO TO EVERY PLAY, EXECUTION, PROCESSION, FIRE, CONCERT, RIUT, TRIAL, REVIEW, CITY FEAST, PUBLIC DISSECTION, OR PICTURE GALLERY THAT HE CAN HEAR OF. Nay, there seems scarcely to have been a school-examination, a wedding, christening, charity sermon, bull-baiting, philosophical meeting, or private merry-making, at which he was not sure to make his appearance, and mindful to record the particulars. HE IS THE FIRST TO HEAR ALL THE COURT SCANDAL AND ALL THE PUBLIC NEWS-to observe the changes of fashions, and the down. fall of parties-to pick up family gossip and to retail philosophical intelligence-to criticise every new house or carriage that is built EVERY NEW ROOK OR NEW BEAUTY THAT APPEARS-every measure the King adopts, and every mistress he discards. "There is very little in Mr. Pepys' Journal which does not help us to understand the character of his times and his contemporaries, better than we should ever have done without it. Independent of instruction too, there is no denying that it is EXTREMELY ENTER TAINING THUS TO BE TRANSPORTED INTO By; and to be admitted into the domestic in- "THE DIARY OF PEPYS THROWS A DISTINCT AND VIVID LIGHT OVER THE PICTURE OF ENGLAND AND ITS GOVERNMENT, during the ten years succeeding the Restoration. If, quitting the broad path of history, we look for minute information concerning Ancient Manners and Customs, the progress of Arts and Sciences, and the various branches of Antiquity, WE HAVE NEVER SEEN A MINE SO RICH AS THE VOLUMES BEFORE US. The variety of Pepys' tastes and pursuits led him into almost every department of life. He was a man of business; a man of information; a man of taste; a man of whim; and, to a certain degree, a man of pleasure. He was a statesman, a bel-esprit, a virtuoso, a connoisseur, and a book-collector. His curiosity made him an unwearied, as well as an universal learner, and whatever he saw, found its way into his tables. If a lover of antique scandal that taketh away the character, and committeth scandalum magnatum against the Nobility of the seventeenth century, should desire to interleave a Granger, or illustrate a Grammont, he will find in these volumes, AN UNTOUCHED TREASURE OF CURIOUS ANEC DOTE. If stories of great persons, or of persons of notoriety, are in request, you have them untouched by either D'Israeli or Seward, from Oliver Cromwell down to Tom Killigrew. Jests lurk within these volumes, unprofaned by Joe Miller, notices of old songs, which Ritson dreamed not of." ་ Quarterly Review (Sir Walter Scott'). "The Diary of Mr. Pepys is THE MOST CURIOUS OF THOSE MS. MEMORIALS OF OLD TIMES which the inquisitive spirit of the present age has raked up. We are not told to what circumstances we are indebted for its publication, after so long an interval of repose; perhaps we owe it to the fortunate escape of Mr. Evelyn's Memoirs from the scissors, and to the celebrity which that AMUSING PIECE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY has acquired. Judging from what is before us, it may safely be averred, that a continuation of the Journal through the remainder of Charles II. and James II, with the like closeness of observation, would have been THE MOST VALUABLE HISTORY EVER LEFT BY MAN FOR THE IN STRUCTION OF AFTER TIMES."-West. Rev. "Notwithstanding the extensive popularity of the Memoirs of GRAMMONT, and the still greater attraction of those of EVELYN, we have no hesitation in stating our opinion that THESE VOLUMES WILL OUTSTRIP THEM BOTH IN PUBLIC ESTIMATION. They reach the very beau ideal of what we desire from such records."-Literary Gazette. "THIS PUBLICATION IS IN A VERY HIGH DEGREE HISTORICALLY VALUABLE."--Times. DR. DODDRIDGE'S PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE & DIARY; Including many Particulars in his Life hitherto unknown, with Notices of his Contemporaries, and a Sketch of the Times in which he lived. Published from the original MSS., by his Grandson, J. DODDRIDGE HUMPHREYS, Esq., in 5 large vols. 8vo. with fine Portrait. Published at £3. 15s. in boards. NOW REDUCED TO £1. 11s. 6d. Among the many distinguished Correspondents of Dr. Doddridge, whose Letters are printed for the first time in this collection, will be found, Bishop Warburton, Dr. Nath. Lardner, Dr. John Leland, Abp. Secker, Dr. Robert Blair, Dean Tucker, Dr. Isaac Watts, Dr. Sam. Clarke, the Rev. John Wesley, the Rev. Thomas Scott, Dr. Gilbert West, the Rev. Hugh Farmer, the Rev. Daniel Neal, the Countess of Huntingdon, and Colonel Gardiner. These in general relate to important questions in Theology, the choice of Books, and Literary Subjects; and contain many important and edifying as well as amusing details. "WE KNOW NOT WHEN, IF EVER, WE HAVE PERUSED MEMOIRS OF THE DESCRIPTION OF THESE NOW BEEORE US, WITH MORE INTENSE CURIOSITY, AMUSE MENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Dr. Doddridge was, in truth, a good man, with as few of the infirmities of humanity as often fall to the lot of his kind. He was a fine character: amiable, learned, affectionate, enlightened, feeling, pious, just, merciful, and sincerely religious. The genuine picture of such a man drawn by his own hand, in his letters on every occasion which could call forth his sentiments and opinions, is to us worth a thousand such lives as Job Orton, or even Dr. Kippis could write; and, we HAVE BEEN ACCORDINGLY ENTERTAINED AND DELIGHTED WITH THESE CHARACTERISTICS-AY, AND, IN A SOCIAL AND MORAL VIEW, MOST IMPORTANT VOLUMES, though of the length of above 500 honest pages each."-Literary Gazette. "THESE VOLUMES MUST RANK WITH OUR FIRST ENGLISH CLASSICS, AND MUST GO DOWN TO POSTERITY AS SPECIMENS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE RARELY SURPASSED."-Evang. Mag. "The letters of Dr. Doddridge bear a closer resemblance to those of Cowper than to any other writer we could name, and many of them are PERFECT MODELS OF STYLE. We have the same graceful ease, the same affectionate tenderness and dignified vivacity in his familiar letters, and the same pathos-the same solemn earnestness, in those of a more devout and serious character. THEY MAY BE READ WITH ADVANTAGE BY THE SCHOLAR, AND STUDIED WITH IMPROVEMENT BY THE CHRISTIAN." "Every work which brings before us the private opinions, and relates the memoirs of men eminent in their religious profession, adds a new and valuable chapter to the annals of Christendom. The great and amiable man, whose correspondence is before us, exercised, both in his life-time and since his death, an extensive influence in the religious world, which would alone render his Memoirs useful in fruitful details." "AS AN AUTHOR, DR. DODDRIDGE IS ENTITLED TO RANK AS ONE OF THE BEST MODERN WRITERS ON DIVINITY. His naturally good taste rendered his style pure and elegant. He wrote after the best models of the period when he lived, and his compositions are as free from errors and affectations of manner, as they are impressive and devotional. They are conspicuous also for a much greater excellency,—their freedom from any sectarianism of spirit. HIS WORKS, THEREFORE, ARE DESERVEDLY ADMIRED AND STUDIED BY EVERY CLASS OF CHRISTIANS."-Monthly Review. "Doddridge was one of those marked and foremost men that alone deserve to be remembered among posterity, and of whom details of every kind are strictly matters of interest to all who delight in analyzing the characters and tracing the conduct of men of superior powers. Luckily, in the case of this eminent man, materials exist in abundance; and, after having been long withheld, have at length fallen into the hands of a man-a great grandson of the author's-with sense and spirit enough to present them to the world unmutilated." New Monthly Mag. |