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MARINO FALIERO, Doge of Venice; a Tragedy, in 5 acts. By Lord BYRON. In 18mo. Price 62 cents, in boards.

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THE PROPHECY of DANTE; a Poem, in 4 Cantos. By Lord BYRON. In 18mo. Price 31 cents, in boards.

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AN ACCOUNT of the YELLOW or MALIGNANT FEVER, as it occurred in the City of Philadelphia in 1820. By SAMUEL JACKSON, M. D. President of the Board of Health. In 8vo. Price 63 cents sewed.

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THE ABBOT: by the author of Waverley. In 2 vols. 12mo. Price $1 75, in boards.

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KENILWORTH; a romance: by the author of Waverley. In 2 vols. 12mo. Price $1 75, in boards.

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THE MONASTERY: by the same author. In 2 vols. 12mo. Price $2, boards.

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ILLUSTRATIONS to PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, engraved by FRANCIS KEAPNEY, from the London edition by Charles Heath-De signs by RICHARD WESTALL. Price 2 dollars.

This work is submitted to the public as a specimen of the perfection to which the art of engraving is carried in this country. is believed to be one of the most elegantly executed works ever published in America.

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Nos. 1 to 3 of THE PHILADELPHIA JOURNAL of the MEDICAL and PHYSICAL SCIENCES, and CRITICAL REIEW. Edited by N. CHAPMAN, M. D. Professor of the Institutes nd Practice of Medicine, and Clinical Practice, in the University of ennsylvania.

No. I. CONTAINS―

1. Chapman on the Nourishment of the Fatus. 2. Physick on the use of he double Canula and wire in extirpating Scirrhous Tonsils and Hemorrhoidal 'umours. 3. Bell on the Contagious Fever of Italy, in 1817. 4. Coxe on Ma. eria Medica. 5. Gibson on Bronchocele or Goitre. 6. Dewees on the Rupure of the Uterus. 7. Colhoun on the use of Tourniquet in Palsy. 8. Caldell's case of Tania or Tape Worm. 8. Horner's case of Lumbar Abscess. 0. Smith's (E. D.) case of Dysuria. 11. Smith's (E. D.) case of Calculus.— Reviews.-1. Hare's New Theory of Galvanism. 2. Hale on Spotted Fever. · Ayre on Marasmus. 4. Snowden on Mania a Potu. Biography.-Chapman's ulogium on Dr. J. S. Dorsey.

No. II. CONTAINS

1. Maclurg on Reasoning in Medicine. 2. Dewees on Retroversion of the terus. 3. Hlare on Galvanism. 4. Horner on the Nervous System. 5. Chaphan on Croup. 6. Jackson's account of the Malignant Fever of 1820. 7. lare's animadversions on the Review of his Theory of Galvanism. 8. Barton in Scutellaria Lateriflora. C'ases.-1. Of Inguinal Aneurism, by Nathan Smith, M. D. 2. Of Luxation downwards of the Os Humeri, by Charles Caldwell, M. D. Reviews.-1. Barton's Flora of North America. 2. Watt on Chincough. Biography-Account of Dr. John Morgan.

No. III. CONTAINS—

1. Jackson's account of the Yellow Fever, continued. 2. Colhoun on the Medical Character of the United States. 3. Lea on Milk Sick. 4. Anderson's Anatomy of the Urinary Bladder, with a plate. 5. Nancrede on Prussic Acid. 6. Dewees on Extra Uterine Conception. 7. Gibson on Bony Tumours, with 2 plates. Cases.-1. Of Lusus Naturæ, by John Livingston, M. D. 2. Of the Use of Mercurial Ointment in Erysipelas, Swelled Leg, &c. by P. W. Little, M. D. 3. Of Hydrocephalus, by Joseph Glover, M. D. 4. Of Grangrenous Suppuration, by John Barnes, M. D. 5. Of Carbuncle, by Philip S. Physick, M. ). Review -Moore's History of the Practice of Vaccination. Medical and Philosophical Intelligence.

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MIRANDOLA; a Tragedy. By BARRY CORNWALL. In 18mo. Price 374 cents.

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CHESTERFIELD TRAVESTIE; or School for Modern Manners. With 6 Caricatures, from designs by Rowlandson. Second American edition. In 12mo. Price 63 cents, in boards.

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Nos. 1 to 11 of A FLORA of NORTH AMERICA. Illustrated by coloured Figures, drawn from Nature. By W. P. C. BARTON, M. D. U. S. N. Professor of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania.

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The first numbers of this general and very extensive work on North Ame rican Botany, are offered to the patronage of the public. The design of it is obvious in this specimen. No one can doubt the importance of figures, pa". t.cularly if they be coloured, in settling many of the doubts and confusions of nomenclatural Botany; more especially where these are enhanced by synony. mous appellations. The descriptions of different botanists occasionally appear discordant, though relating to plants described by the same name, because two or more individuals, nearly allied to each other, but specifically distinct, have been severally in view. To remove such doubts and confusion, and to elucidate the whole of the Botany of North America, by a coloured figure of every plant, on the plan of the Flora Danica, is the design of the author. The great. est, and indeed often an insuperable difficuity in a work of this kind, arises from the necessity of the designer being botanically acquainted with the subjects of his pencil, or very much in the practice of botanical delineation: otherwise the drawings will be laborious and awkward, and destitute of the characteristic appearance of the plants. In this part of the work, the true de lineation of what botanists term the habit, or in other words, the prevailing character of plants, is particularly studied. Hence the gracefulness of a mere picture is often sacrificed to the physiognomy, or the natural formality or stiff. ness of the subject; and, as the figures will all be drawn by the author from liv ing plants, guided by this care, he hopes, though executed with the greatest ra pidity, that they will be found correct.

Regarding the necessity or usefulness of this undertaking, it may be proper to make this one remark:--In a country so rich with vegetable productions, constantly inviting the attention and investigation of foreign botanists, we ought not surely to be longer in want of a national work of reference, in which faith. ful drawings will be considered as incontrovertible authority.

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RAMSAY'S UNIVERSAL HISTORY; or, an Historical View of the World, from the earliest records to the year 1808. With a particular reference to the state of society, literature, religion, and form of government in the United States of America. With a sup plement, containing a Brief view of History from 1808 to the Battle of Waterloo. In 12 vols. 8vo. Price bound, $35.

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