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ELPHINSTONE'S (Hon. M.) CABUL and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India, comprising a View of the Affghan Nation, &c. map and coloured portrait, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 8s. 6d. (pub. £1. 8s.) 1842

"Every reader will fee that the writer of this work is a man of enlarged views and mafculine understanding, whose principal object is to tell what he has feen or thought as clearly and briefly as he can, his ftyle is clear, precife, manly, and always perfectly unaffected."- Edinburgh Review.

FISH AND FISHING-FORSTER'S (Frank) Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America, by H. W. Herbert, illuftrated with upwards of 40 beautiful woodcuts, 8vo. new cloth, 5s. 6d. (pub. 16s.) 1849 FORESTER'S (Frank) FIELD SPORTS in the United States and the British Provinces of America, 2 vols. poft 8vo. cloth, 5s. 6d. (pub. £1. Is.) 1848 FOSBROKE'S (Rev. T. D. Author of the Encyclopedia of Antiquities, &c. c.) Rules relating to the Scenery and Antiquities incident to Travellers, including an Epitome of GILPIN's Principles of the Picturesque, fm. 8vo. bds. 2s. 6d. (pub. at 7s.)

1826

"As the Encyclopedia of Antiquities was intended to facilitate a general acquifition of Archæology, fo this has for its object the diffemination, in a cheap form, of the Picturesque, and the Antiquities ir cident to Travellers; the refult of which will, it is hoped, enable the Tourist to have a higher enjoyment of his excurfive pleasures, and the Topographer to enliven the heaviness of defcription by tasteful and interesting additions."-Preface. FOSBROKE'S (Rev. T. D.) Picturefque and Topographical Account of. Cheltenham, and its vicinity, to which are added contributions towards the Medical History of the Waters by Dr. John Fofbroke, 12mo. Sewed, 2s. (pub. 5s.) 1826 The object of this work is to give fome literary character to the accounts of Cheltenham, by treating the fubject according to the rules of great authorities in Scenery and Archæology.

HOOKER'S (W. J.) JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN ICELAND during the Summer of 1809, maps and plates, 2 vols. 8vo. bds. 4s. 13

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"I trust that I am equally fatisfying my own confcience and the good taste of the public, when I give my unqualified recommendation of this work."-Dibdin.

JAMES' (G. P. R.) HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF EDWARD the Black Prince, and of various events connected therewith, which occurred during the Reign of Edward III. King of England, map, 2 vols. 12mo. bds. 2s. 6d. 1839

"We know no one to whom we could refer the ftudent for more popular hiftorical information than to Mr. James. His accuracy both as to facts and the deductions flowing from them, may be relied on."- Athenæum.

JAMES' (G. P. R.) HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD, Cœurde-Lion, King of England, 4 vols. 8vo. new cloth, 8s. 6d. (pub. £2. 16s.) 1842-49

"Mr. James's characters are drawn with the utmost attention to existing records. The events are industriously ftudied fo as to bear the ftamp of historic truth, and the very landscapes are painted with that fidelity which an artift only can beftow."-Monthly Review.

KAYE'S (J. W.) HISTORY OF THE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN, new edidition revised and corrected, 3 vols. fcap. 8vo. new cloth, 8s. 6d. (pub. 15s.) 1857 KNIGHT'S (H. GALLY) ARCHITECTURAL TOUR in Normandy, with fome Remarks on Norman Architecture, 1 vol. 1841-Normans in Sicily, being a Sequel to the Architectural Tour, 1 vol. 1838, together 2 vols. poft 8vo. cloth, 5s. 6d. (pub. 18s.)

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BBOTT'S (Lieut. G.) | Views of the Forts of Bhurtpore and Weire, with a short account of their capture, 13 plates, oblong folio, hf. bd. uncut, 7s. 6d. 1830

2 ABBOTT'S (Major Jas.) Narrative of a Journey, from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, during the late Russian Invasion of Khiva, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d. (pub. £1. 1s.) second edition. 1856 3 ABEILLARD and HELOISA,

the History of the Lives of, with their genuine letters from the Collection of Amboise, translated by Rev. J. Berrington, 4to. bds. 5s. 6d. 1788

4 ABEL (F. A.) and Bloxam's (C. L.) Handbook of Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Technical, numerous illustrations, thick 8vo. cloth, 10s. (pub. 15s.)

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"The Abipones have been in one thing fortunate above all other savages; for the history of their manners and fortunes, by Martin Dobrizhoffer, is of all books relating to savage life the most curious, and in every respect the most interesting.". Southey.

11 ACERBI'S Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the Years 1798 and 1799, many plates, those of Natural History coloured, 2 vols. 4to. old russia gilt, marbled edges, FINE COPY, 12s. 6d.

1802

The Author of these interesting and amusing volumes has pushed his discoveries beyond the utmost point to which any preceding traveller had extended his search in the bleak but not inhospitable region of the north.

12 ACLAND'S (H. D.) Illustrations of the Vaudois, a series of 12 views, engraved by Finden, with descriptions, royal 8vo. hf. morocco, 6s. 6d. 1831 13 A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-NINE WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS, of Turkish Officials, Professionals, Domestics, &c. &c. exhibiting every variety of Costume, Male and Female, very carefully executed, with descriptions in French- FIFTYEIGHT VERY CURIOUS ENGRAVINGS, also illustrative of Turkish Manners, Customs, Games, &c. in 1 vol. folio, hf. marocco, very neat, £6. 6s.

14 A COMPENDIUM of the Law of Husband and Wife, comprising the Laws relating to Breach of Promise of Marriage, Seduction, and Abduction of Women, &c. 8vo. bds. 4s. 1831

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