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count of Ecclesiastical Benefices in England and Wales, 8vo. calf, 28. 1728 4203 Ecton's Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum, an Account of the Valuation of all the Ecclesiastical Benefices in the Dioceses in England and Wales, and Patrons, Procurations and Synodals, &c. thick 4to. 4s. 6d. 1742 4204 Eden's State of the Poor, or History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest, also of Work-Houses and Houses of Industry, &c. &c. 3 vols. 4to. "a highly elaborate work," 21. 28. 1797

4205 Eden (Lord Auckland) Principles of Penal Law, 8vo. " an elegant work," 28. 1771 4206 Edgcumbe, a Walk round Mount-Edgcumbe, or Guide, L. P. royal 8vo. plan and plates, 38. 6d. Plymouth, 1821 4207 Edgworth (Richard Lovell, and Maria) Essays on Practical Education, 2 vols. 8vo. 48. 1801 4208 Edgeworth's Memoirs by himself, continued by his Daughter, Miss Edgeworth, 2 vols. 8vo. portraits and plates, 4s. 6d. pub. 11. 10s. 1821 4209 Edgeworth (Miss) Helen, 3 vols. cr. 8vo. 8s. pub. 11. 118. 6d.

4211 Edinburgh Cabinet Library.

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4210 Edinburgh, Minor Antiquities of, by Chambers, cr. 8vo. map and cuts, 3s. Edin. 1833 Professors Leslie, Jameson, and Hugh Murray, Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions, cloth, 2s. 6d. pub. 58. 1832 4212 Vols. 9, 13, 14, 16, and 17, Northern Coasts of America, Arabia, Lives of Zoologists, Aristotle to Linnæus, Barbary States, cloth, 38. each, sells 5s. 1834 4213 EDINBURGH GAZETTEER, 6 vols. 8vo. half russia, neat, 2l. 12s. 6d. 4214 Edinburgh, Journal of, Natural and GeographiIcal, edited by Ainsworth and Cheek, 3 vols. all published complete, both series, with the Supplement in 19 nos. 15s. pub. 17. 188. 1829-31 4215 Edinburgh Medical and Physical Dictionary, containing an Explanation of the Terms of Art, with copious Account of Diseases and their Treatment, with copious Glossary of Obsolete Terms for referring to Ancients, 2 thick vols. 4to. 52 plates, 11. pub. 51.

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4216 Edinburgh Review, complete to 1837, with Index to first 20 vols. 65 vols. 8vo. half calf, neat and uniform, 71. 78. 4217 Edinburgh Review, first 16 vols. half russia, very fine copy, 21. 4218 87, 31. 58. 4218*- - Very large assemblage of ODD NUM. BERS of EDIN. REV., 1 to 20, 1s. each; 21 to 60, 6d. each; 61 to 80, 18. each; 81 to 90, 28. each; 91 to end, 2s. 6d. each.

Nos. 1 to 88, wanting 14, 64, 65, 67, and

4219 Edmondson on Self-Government, 8vo. 28. pub. 1816

88.

4220 Edrehi (Rev. Dr.) Historical Account of the 10 Tribes settled beyond the River Sambatyon in the East, with many other curious matters relating to the state of the Israelites, translated, 8vo. 38. 1836

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4225 Aids to Developement, or Mental and Moral Instruction Exemplified, thick cr. 8vo. 58. pub. 98. 1832 4227 Antrobus' Philosophical and Practical View of the Social Bearings and Importance of Education, with Estimate of its Influence and Tendencies, and Necessity, &c. of Early Formation of Character, 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d. pub. 7s. 6d. 1837 4228 Biber (Dr.) Pestalozzian Lectures on Christian Education in Spirit and in Truth, 8vo. new, cloth, "great eloquence and shrewd observation," 2s. 6d. pub. 78. 6d. 1830

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4229 Celnart, Manuel des Demoiselles, ou Arts et Metiers qui leur conviennent, et dont elles peu vent s'occuper avec agrement, 12mo. coloured plates, 28. Paris, 1826 Chapman (Priscilla) on Hindoo Female Education, cr. 8vo. cloth, plates, 2s. 6d. 1839 Chirol (Rev. J. L.) Enquiry into the Best System of Female Education, or Boarding School and Home Education attentively considered, 8vo. calf, neat, 3s. pub. 98. 1809 Education of the Lower Orders, Report of Committee of House of Commons, with the Evidence, Addenda, and Index, thick 8vo. half russia, (pp. 610,) 38. pub. 15s. 1816 4233 - Educational Reminiscences, the Result of Experience and Observation, 12mo. cloth, gilt leaves, 1s. 6d. 1839 4234 First Lines of a System of Education, principally from German Writers, on Philosophical Principles, and Necessity of earlier Moral Culture urged, 8vo. 28. 1811 4235 Goddard (Rev. C.) Account of the Origin, Principles, Results, of the Institution in Bucks and Berks for teaching Adults to Read, 8vo. 28. Windsor, 1816 Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline, cr. 8vo. (highly esteemed work by Mrs. Appleton,) 2s. 1820 4237 Hills (Messrs. of Tottenham) Plans of Education, for Government and Liberal Instruction of Boys in large numbers, drawn from experience, 8vo. 18. 6d. pub. 78. 6d. 1822

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Solida, Superficiaria et Falsa, III Tractatibus De Educatione Liberorum Christiana, Irenico Universali, Theologiæ Mysticæ ejusque Auctorum Idea Generali, cum suis Defensionibus, 2 vols. small 4to. calf, 48. Amst. 1707

4248 Education. Potter (Rev. J. P.) The Moralist, or Essays on the Means of Moral Education, addressed to Parents, dedicated to Coplestone, 12mo. 28. pub. 4s. 1821 Priaux, Osmond de Beauvoir, National Education, 8vo. cloth, 4s. 1837 Private Education, or Observations on Governesses, by Madame Bureaud Riofrey, 8vo. 2s. 6d. pub. 10s.

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Trimmer (Mrs.) Guardian of Education, a Practical Essay on Christian Education founded immediately on the Scriptures and Sacred Offices of the Church, with Memoirs and Extracts, and copious Examination of Modern Systems. complete in 5 vols. 8vo. fine copy, half calf, uncut, 10s. 1806 4254 Williams' Syllabic Spelling, or Summary Method of teaching Children to read on Berthaud's plan, cr. 8vo. 28. pub. 68. 6d. 1830

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Wilson (Rev. W. of Walthamstow) The System of Infants' Schools, 8vo. plates, 2s. 6d. pub. 48. 6d. 1826 Wood's Account of Edinburgh Sessional School and other Parochial Institutions for Education in Scotland, with Strictures on Education, cr. 8vo. 2s. 6d. pub. 48. 6d. Edinburgh, 1829 Yates' Thoughts on the Advancement of Academical Education in England, 8vo. 28. 1827 4258 Edwards' Anecdotes of Painters, resident or born in England, with Critical Remarks on their Productions, 4to. 4s. 6d. pub. 18s. 1808 Practical Treatise on Perspective on Brook Taylor's Principles, 4to. 40 plates, 108. pub. 1803 4260 Edwards' Canons of Criticism and Glossary, Remarks on Shakespear, Trial of Letters Y. alias Y. and Sonnets, 8vo. calf, best piece of facetious criticism in the language."—D'Israeli. 3s. 1758

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4238 Jardine (Professor) Outlines on Philoso-
phical Education, illustrated by the Method of
teaching the Logic Class in Glasgow University,
thick cr. 8vo. 5s. 6d. pub. 10s. 6d.
1825
4239 Juvenile Instructor, containing Reli-
gious and Moral Poetry and Prose, Original and
Selected, 6 pocket vols. many cuts, 48. pub.
Leicester, 1837
Ladies' Sunday School Assistant, or
Mother's Guide to the IV Gospels, being an ex-4263
planation of each, with Practical Hints, cr. 8vo.
cloth, new, 28. 6. pub.
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4221 EDUCATION COLLEGIATE. Burlama-
qui's Principles of Natural and Politic Law, trans-
lated; Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy;
Dr. Professor Hallifax's Elements of Roman Civil
Law; Port Royal Art of Thinking, translated;
Reid on the Human Mind; Burke on the Sublime
and Beautiful, 3 vols. royal 8vo. half calf, neat,
46 a valuable collection," 13s.
1817
4222
COURSE OF PHYSICS. IV Intro-
ductory Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Dublin,
1817; Select Parts of Helsham's Lectures, Dub-
lin, 1822; Wood's Mechanics, 1818; Vince's Hy-
drostatics, 1820; Wood's Optics, 1818; Stack's
Optics, Dublin, 1811, 2 vols. 8vo. half calf, 98. 6d.
4223 EDUCATION ON LOCKE'S PLAN, with
interlinear translation; ITALIAN. Selections, with
interlinear translation, 1830; LATIN. Ovid Me-
tamorphoses, Book I., 1828; Tacitus Agricola,
1829; Virgil's Eneid and Parsing Lessons, 1835; 4246
GREEK. Homer's Iliad, Book I., 1830, 18. 6d.
each, sells 2s. 6d.

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Lancaster (Rev. T. W.) Alliance of Edu cation and Civil Government, with Strictures on London University, 4to. 28. pub. 68. 1828 Lessons on Number as given in a Pestalozzian School, cr. 8vo. 2s. 4244 Nelson on the Government of Children, Health, Manners and Education, cr. 8vo. calf, 2s. Dodsley, 1756 Perry's Outlines of his Lectures on a 1823 New System of Education, 12mo. 18.

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Brief Account of the Professed Tenets and Doctrines of the Foreign and English Socinians, with their Tendency, 8vo. calf, 2s. 1697 Socinianism Unmask'd, a Discourse show1696 ing the Unreasonableness, 8vo. calf, 28. 4264 Thoughts on the Causes and Occasions of Atheism, particularly in the Present Age, 8vc. calf, 28. 1695 4265 EDWARDS (PRESIDENT JONATHAN) Works, (vol. 8 only, royal 8vo.) Sermons, Miscellaneous Observations, Remarks on Religious 1811 Controversies, &c. 5s.

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4267 1768 neat, 4s. 4268 on Freedom of Will, with Introductory Essay, by Author of Natural History of Enthusiasm, thick cr. 8vo. 6s. pub. 8s. 6d.

4269

1831 Dissertations on the End for which God created the World, and Nature of True Virtue, 1788 12mo. bnd. 18.

Pillans (Professor) Principles of Elementary Teaching, 2nd edit. with answers and addi-4270 tional illustration, 12mo. 2s. Edinburgh, 1829 Poiret (Petri) de Eruditione Triplici,

4224 QUARTERLY JOURNAL of EDU-4247

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History of the Work of Redemption, cr. 8vo. bnd. 28. Edinb. 1799; or 8vo. bnd. 3s. Edinb. 1774; or wanting title-page, 28.

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4271 EDWARDS' Sermons, cr. 8vo. calf, 28. 1795 | 4300 Elliot's Medical Pocket Book, a short but 4323 Emerson's Elements of Geometry, 8vo. bound, 4272 Treatise on Religious Affections, cr. 8vo. plain Account of the Symptoms and Treatment of 1794 calf, 28. 1762; or cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d. pub. 6s. Diseases, with the New Medicines, 12mo. 28. pub. Easy Introduction to the several Branches 1831 of the Mathematics, 8vo. bound, 2s. 6d. pub. 10s. 6d. 1763 4325 Tracts; Mechanics, Projection of Sphere, Laws of Force, edited, with Life, by Bowe, 8vo. bound, 2s. 6d.

Seeley, 1827 4273 Egan (Pierce) Book of Sports and Mirror of Life, 8vo. wood-cuts, 48. pub. 78.

1832

1820

4274 Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected, cr. 8vo. half calf, neat, 48. 4275

1822

Life in London, or Day and Night Scenes of Hawthorn, Tom, and Bob Logic, in their Rambles and Sprees, 8vo. numerous coloured plates by Cruikshank, 9s. pub. 11. 168. 4276 Egerton (Lord Chancellor in Queen Elizabeth's Reign) Life of, 4to. a fragment of 160 pages, privately printed at Paris by the Earl of Bridgewater, 48.

4277 Eglise Chretienne, Choix des Monumens Primitives de, traduits avec Notices Litteraires, par Buchon (Correspondence entre Pline et Trajan, au sujets des Chretiens, Tertulien, Minucius Felix, St. Cyprien, Lactance et Maternus) royal 8vo. 108. Paris, 1837

1787 Dieux ou

1733

4278 Egypt, Lettres sur, avec un Parallele des Moeurs Anciennes et Modernes, par Savary, 3 vols. 12mo. calf, very neat, 3s. 6d. 4279 Egypt, Lettres sur les Premiers Rois d'Egypt, 12mo. 18. 4280 Egyptian Antiquities, Catalogue of (Athanasi's) Collection of, sold May, 1833, 8vo. plate of Sphinx, neatly priced, with purchasers' names, 28. 4281 Egyptian Antiquities, Mummies, &c. Catalogue of, sold March, 1833, with 3 plates, neatly priced, with purchasers' names, 28. 4282 Eisendecher on the Origin, Development, and Formation of Civic Rights in Ancient Rome, with Preface by Heeren (in German), 8vo. 48. pub. 78. 6d. Hamburgh, 1829 4283 Eisenhart, de Fide Historica Commentarius et Orat. de Conjungendis Jurisprudentiæ et Historiam Studiis, 12mo. calf, 28. 1702 4284 EISENMENGER, Judaism discovered, being a Collection of all the Fables, Allegories, and Contradictions in the Talmud and other Rabbinical Works (in German), 2 thick vols. 4to. calf, very scarce, 11. 4s. usual price, 21. 12s. 6d. Franc. 1700 4285 Eldon (Dr.) Continental Traveller's Oracle, or Maxims for Locomotion, 2 vols. cr. 8vo. (fund of valuable counsel) new, in cloth, 3s. pub. 158. 1828 4286 Election for Barnstable (Chichester, Major Fancourt, Northmore, and Lord G. Hervey,) Collection of the Addresses, Squibs, &c. of, 8vo. 28. Barnstable, 1833 4287 for the County of Down, Collection of the Wit, Genius, and Truth, or all the Publications in the Contested Election, Col. Meade and Castlereagh, 1805, curious portraits, &c. 8vo. 28. 4288 for Pontefract (Milnes, Lord Pollington, Lascelles and Hodgson, also Lord Pollington, E. L. and T. B. Hodgson,) Collection of the Squibs, &c. during the Contested Election in 1812, 8vo. 28. Pontefract, 1812 4289 Electricity and Electro-Chemistry, Elements of. by Singer, 8vo. plates, scarce, 10s. 1814 4290 Electricity, Lectures on, by Ferguson, with Appendix, by Partington, 8vo. 28. pub. 38. 6d. 1825 Bompass' Essay on the Nature of Heat, Light, and Electricity, 8vo. 38. pub. 78. 1817 4292 Elegant Extracts from most celebrated British Writers, Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Remarks, by Professor O'Sullivan, 2 thick vols. cr. 8vo. 4s. Paris, 1830 4293 ELEGANT EXTRACTS, PROSE, VERSE, and EPISTLES, complete, and very neatly bnd. in 5 vols. 8vo. 11.

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4301 Ellis' Specimens of Early English Poets, cr. 8vo. calf, neat, 68. 6d. 1790

4302 Ellis' Specimens of the Early English Poets, with Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of English Poetry and Language, 3 vols. cr. 8vo. 168. 6d. pub. 11. 168.

1803 4303 Ellis (Sir H.) Collection of Original Letters illustrative of English History, with Notes, 3 vols. cr. 8vo. 18s. 6d. pub. 11. 16s. 1824 4304 Ellis. The Knowledge of Divine Things from Revelation, not from Reason or Nature, Svo. calf, good copy, 4s. 6d. 1743; or bds. 4s. 6d. pub.

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4305 Ellis (J.) Description of the Mangostan and the Bread Fruit, the most delicious and useful of East Indian Fruits, plates, 1775; Dr. Hulme's Remedy for the Stone, Gravel, Scurvy, Gout, &c. and Destruction of Worms, &c. &c. 1778; Este's Tracts on Medical Subjects, 1776; Animadver. sions on the Constitution of Physick, with Reflections on Conduct of Coll. of Physicians, 1768; Dr. H. Smith's Philosophical Inquiries into the Laws of Animal Life, 1780, &c. 4to. 38. 4306 Ellison (Seacome) Prison Scenes, and Narrative of Escape from France during the late War, 8vo. cloth, plates, 48. 1838

4307 Ellwood (Thomas, the Quaker, friend and pupil of Milton) Sacred History, 2 vols. folio, fine copy, calf, 98. 1720

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4308 Elines general and bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts, with the best Books and Treatises, thick, 8vo. scarce, 8s. pub. 17. 18.. 1826 4309 Elocution, Elements of, in which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are investigated, by Walker, 8vo. 3s. pub. 78. 1825 Burgh's Art of Speaking, with Rules and Lessons from Antients and Moderns, 8vo. calf, 1768 4311 Eloquence de la Chaire, Panegyriques, Eloges et Discours, par Cardinal Maury, 3 thick vols. cr. 8vo. 4s. Paris, 1828 4312 Eloy Dictionnaire Historique de la Medicine, Ancienne et Moderne, et de Toutes Nations, 4 vols. 4to. calf, neat, a highly valuable work, 11s. 6d. Mons. 1778

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Secrets Merveilleux de la Magie Naturelle et Cabalistique du Petit Albert, 12mo. calf, mysterious plates, 28. Lion. 1729 4328 Emma de Lissau, a Narrative of Striking Vicissitudes and Peculiar Trials illustrative of the Jews, 2 vols. 48. pub. 128. 4329 Emma de Lissau, cr. 8vo. 38. 4330 Emmerton on the Culture of the Auricula, Carnation, and other Flowers, cr. 8vo. 2s. 6d. pub. 108. 1819 4331 Emmius Vetus Græcia Illustrata, 3 vols. in 1, thick 8vo. calf, “a valuable work," 3s. 6d. Elzev. 1626 4332 ENCYCLOPÆDIA (The BRITISH) by Wm. Nicholson, 6 thick vols. 8vo. half russia, neat, 150 engravings, 11. 4s. pub. 6 gs. 1809 4333 Encyclopædia, Pocket, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Polite Literature, by Kendal, 4 vols. 12mo. calf, neat, plates, 5s. 6d. pub. ll. 4s. 1811 4334 Encyclopædia, Portable, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, comprehending the latest improvements, by Mitchell, thick 8vo. half calf, neat, 51 plates, 8s. 6d. pub. ll. 48. 4335 Endless Amusement, or 400 Entertaining Experiments, 12mo. cuts, 1s. 6d. pub. 2s. 6d. 1836 4336 Endless Amusement, 400 Experiments and Fire Work, Sequel to ditto, Rational Recreations, 1825, thick vol. 12mo. half calf, 48. 1791

1826

4337 ENFIELD'S HISTORY of PHILOSOPHY, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of Present Century, from Brucker's Hist. Crit. Philosophiæ, 2 vols. 4to. calf, neat, 18s. 6d. 1791 4338 Enfield (Dr.) Speaker, with Essay on Elocution, 8vo. very fine copy, calf, 48. (Williams' copy sold for 11.) 1774 4339 Exercises in Elocution, selected from various Authors, cr. 8vo. fine copy, calf, 2s. 6d. 1787 4340 Enfield's Young Artist's Assistant, or Elements of the Fine Arts, Drawing, Painting, Colouring, Engraving, &c. cr. 8vo. plates, 2s. 6d. pub. 4s. 6d.

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4341 ENGINEERING, Professor Mahan's Elementary Course of Civil Engineering, edited by Professor Barlow, 4to. cloth, 17 plates, 98. 6d. pub. 148. Glasgow, 1838 Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. 1. 4to. cloth, 178. pub. ll. 10s. 1836 4343 England and Wales, Alphabetical Description of the Chief Places in, and most memorable Events in each, by the celebrated Antiquary, Wm. Lambarde, 4to. calf, fine portrait by Vertue, 108. 6d. usual price 17. 1730

4316 Castel of Health, 12mo. Black Letter, 4344 England, The Seven Ages of, or its Advancewants title, 38. 1541 ment in Arts, Literature and Science, from the 4317 Emblems. Alciatæ Emblemata cum Notis, Earliest Periods to Present Time, by C. Williams, thick 8vo. numerous emblematical cuts, 38. thick cr. 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d. 1836 Lugd. 1600 4345 England, the Sound of the Trumpet a Pro4318 Emblemata Horatiana Vonii, Latino, Germaphetic Warning or Alarm to England, Scotland nico, Gallico, Belgico, Carmine illustrata, 12mo. and Ireland; with Discourse on the Prophetical calf, neat, numerous fine emblematical prints, Seven Churches of Asia, and various Interesting 38. 6d. Amst. 1784 Particulars, 8vo. cloth, 78. pub. 15s. 1837 4319 Francisci Pona Cardiomorphoseos sive 4346 England, France, Russia, and Turkey, 1835; ex Corde desumpta Emblemata Sacra. Veronæ, Sultan Mahmoud and Mehemet Ali Pasha, 1835; 1645; Ponæ Ormundus. Verona, 1635; Pona Turkey and Russia, or Observations on the Polititrattato de Veleni e lor Cura. Verona, 1643, small cal and Commercial Relations with England, 1835; 4to. calf, neat, many emblematical cuts, 3s. 6d. 8vo. cloth, 28. 4320 -- Phillips' Floral Emblems, 8vo. coloured plates, 11s. pub. 11. 108. 1825 4321 Emerson's History of Modern Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the present Time, 2 4348 vols. 8vo. 10s. 6d. pub. 11. 12s. 1830 4322 Emerson (Pecchio and Humphreys) Picture of Greece in 1825, 2 vols. cr. 8vo. 4s. 6d. pub.

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1766 4351 English Composition, Treatise on, with General View of English Grammar, by Williams, 12mo. 1836

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4352 ENGLISH GRAMMAR, with Exercises and Key, by Lindley Murray, best edition, in 2 vols. 8vo. 118. pub. ll. 18. 1824 4353 Knowles (James) Orthoepy and Elocution of the English Language, cr. 8vo. 2s. 6d. pub. 48. Glasgow, 1829 4354 Oliver (Rev. E.) Practical English Grammar, 12mo. 18. 6d. 1807 4355 Englishman Abroad in Greece, Latium, Arabia, Persia, Hindostan, China, Russia, Germany, Italy, &c. &c. with Specimens of the Languages, by Weston, thick 8vo. plates, 3s. 6d. pub. 10s. 1824 4356 Engravings. Bartsch Catalogue raisonne de toutes les Estampes de Lucas de Leyde, cr. 8vo. 28. Vienne, 1798 4357 Chronological Series of Engravers, from the Invention of the Art till Beginning of the Present Century, cr. 8vo. 2s. 1770 4358 Essai sur l'Origine de la Gravure en Bois et Taille Douce et Connoissance des Estampes des XV et XVIe Siecles et Cartes a Jouer, Cartes Geographiques, Papier, Chiffres, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. wants plates, 3s. Paris, 1808 4359 Evelyn's Sculptura, or Hist. and Art of Chalcography and Engraving, with List of Engravers, cr. 8vo. calf, neat, fine portraits, 38. 6d.

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4360 Flindall's Amateur's Pocket Companion, or Description of scarce and valuable Engraved British Portraits and rare Works, 12mo. wants title page, but scarce, 3s. pub. 78. 6d. 1813 4361

Gilpin's Essay on Prints, different kinds, Character, Criticisms, Cautions, &c. 8vo. 2s. 1768 4362 Lebrun, Recueil de Gravures au Trait a l'Eau Forte, et Ombrees de toutes les Ecoles, 2 vols. 8vo. half calf, neat, 179 outline plates, 12s. pub. 11. 10s. Paris, 1809 4363 Meadows' Lectures on Engraving at the Surrey Institution, 8vo. 2s. 1810 4364 Vertue's Catalogue of Engravers, born or residents in England, by Horace Walpole, with Life, &c. of Vertue, cr. 8vo. half calf, neat, 3s. 6d. 1786 4365 ENIGMAS, SCIENTIFIC MIRROR, a Mathematical, Philosophical, &c. Repository, both parts, all published, 1s. sells 3s. 6d. Bolton, 1829-30 4366 Entertainer (Mist's) containing Remarks on Men, Manners, Religion and Policy, with dedication to Oxford University, 12mo. calf, very neat, 1718

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Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum, with synoptical Table of British Butterflies, cr. 8vo. 48. 6d. pub. 78. 6d. 4369 Curtis's introduction to the Knowledge of Insects, translated, with additions, from Linnæus, 8vo. half calf, plates, 38. 1772 4370

Distinguishing Characteristics of Insects, or Linnæan System, by Sulzer and Gessner, (in German) small 4to. calf, neat, 24 plates of insects 1761

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Donovan's Natural History of British Insects, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, in 3 vols. royal 8vo. half calf, neat, an original copy, with multitude of beautifully coloured plates, 21. 10s. pub. 91.

1792-5 4372 Donovan's British Insects, vol. 1, 39 finely coloured plates, 68, 1792

4373 Entomological Magazine, vol. 1, 8vo. cloth, plates, 98. 1833 4374 Goedartius Metamorphosis et Hist. Nat. Insectorum cum comment. Mey. 12mo. col. plates, 38. 6d. Mediol. 1662 4375 Godartius of Insects, done into English and Methodized, with Notes by Martin Lister, small 4to. plates, (Graves' copy sold for 21.) 5s. 1682

English Insects, including Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and Libellulæ, 4to. 50 finely coloured plates, il. 1782 Harris's English Lepidoptera, a Catalogue of 400 Moths and Butterflies, food of Caterpillars, places, &c. 1775, scarce, 8vo. 38.

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History of Insects, 2 vols. cloth, many cuts, 5s. pub. 10s. Murray's Family Library, 1830 Index Alphabeticus in Fabricii Systema Eleutheratorum Genera et Species, 8vo. 18. 6d. 1803 4380 Latreille Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum, 3 vols. 8vo. (wanting vol. 3) 16 plates, Paris, 1809 Lehmann de Fabricam et de Usu Antennarum Insectorum, 12mo. 28. Hamburg, 1790-1800 4382 Lesser Theologie des Insectes, ou Demonstration des Perfections de Dieu, traduit de l'Allemand, avec Remarques par Lyonnet, 2 vols. in 1, Svo. calf, neat, plates, 4s. Haye, 1742 Mulsant Lettres a Julie sur l'Entomologie, avec la Description Methodique de la plus grande Partie des Insectes de France, 2 vols. 8vo. beautifully coloured plates, 98. 6d. pub. ll. 58.

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4403 Epitaphs, Orchard's New Collection of Epitaphs and Remarkable Monumental Inscriptions, cr. 8vo. 28. 1827

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Select Collection of Epitaphs, with Anecdotes of Extraordinary Persons, 12mo. half bound, 3s. 6d. . Ipswich, 1806 4405 Snow's Sepulchral Gleanings, or a Collection of Epitaphs, Ancient, Modern, &c. cr. 8vo. 28. 6d. Privat. print. 1817 4406 - Triumphus Poeticus Mortis, id est Selectissima Carmina in Obitum, quam Plurimorum, Imperatorum, Regum, Principum, Ducum, Comitum et Baronum, ex Optimis Totius Europæ Poetis, conquisita, in Salutarem Mortis Meditationem, thick cr. 8vo. calf, (pp. 818,) 38.

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But the chief cause which has rendered the study of their own antiquities so interesting to the Germans, is seated in the nature of those antiquities themselves. They are both more romantic and interesting in themselves than those of any other nation, unless Spain may be an exception, and also more closely connected with the present state of the country than any where else. Ancient Greece and Italy, not to mention Egypt and the East, are separated from those countries in their modern state by a chasm which makes them belong to a different world: France has neither ancient recollections to look back to, nor a turn of mind to value them if it had: and England is so much more interested in present and practical matters, that she looks back with more contempt than veneration on the past, and thinks more on how much we have advanced beyond our ancestors than how much we owe to them. But the German genius is essentially retrospective; it carries this disposition to the antiquities of other nations as well as its own; and what is peculiarly worthy of remark, this study with them does not, as among the individuals of other nations, terminate in itself, and become a mere mass of learning heaped up, but infuses itself into their whole train of thinking; and, ingrafted on modern intellect

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and genius, produces new combinations, like earth terest. The poem takes in the portentous space of
brought from a distance, renewing and invigorating 35 years; and yet the divisions of time are so ad-
the soil with which it mingles. This is particularly mirably made, and serve so well to mark the dif-
observable in the four great stars of German litera- ferent pauses in the action, that they are perhaps
ture, Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, and Herder.
rather a beauty than a defect. The same persons,
But, in the whole domain of antiquity, whether with only one exception, continue in action through-
foreign or domestic, there is no work which has ex- out the whole poem, although, in the latter part,
cited this spirit so deeply and universally in Ger- many new ones are introduced, which, without
many as The Nibelungen Lied. It holds nearly the breaking at all the unity of the interest, greatly in-
same place in German poetry as the Odyssey in an- creases the variety. In this respect, it has the ad-
cient Greece (it would be doing it great injustice vantage over perhaps every other epic poem in
to put it on a level with the Iliad, to which it is far existence; even Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered,"
superior in conduct and incident, though infinitely which most resembles it (for Ariosto is not to be
inferior in language, descriptions, and insulated pas- mentioned among epic poets), is inferior to it in
sages), or as Shakspeare among ourselves. It was this respect. Along with this, it has the very dif-
not till the middle of the last century that it ap- ferent and apparently contrary merit of extreme
peared in print at all, being first published, and simplicity carried almost to a fault, as is usual with
that only in part, by the celebrated poet and critic, the ancient poems of all except the classic nations,
Bodmer, in 1757. The whole of it was afterwards but still far removed from the baldness that gene-
made public by Müller, in 1782. Even after this, it rally accompanies that simplicity. This is visible
does not appear to have attracted any attention dur- both in the language and the plan. The former has
ing the remainder of that century. The first person not the slightest pretension to ornament or harmony,
who had the honour of bringing its extraordinary me- and yet neither of those qualities is missed. Though
rits into public view, was Von Hagen, a Prussian there is nothing musical in the verse, yet it is not
nobleman of great spirit and talent, who, in 1807, labour thrown away: it would not answer as well in
gave an edition of it, in which the original dialect prose; for there is something poetical, though one
was modernized, though at the same time with as cannot tell what it is, in the pause at the end of the
little alteration as possible, and thus the work was line and the stanza, and in the rhyme of the couplet.
for the first time rendered generally intelligible and As to the plan, it is the most perfectly inartificial
popular, while at the same time the versification and that it is possible to imagine, and strongly confirms
spirit of the original were faithfully preserved: a the probability of its being (as indeed the author
mode of alteration that might perhaps be advantage-professes) a faithful record of older legends strung
ously applied to some of our oldest poets, and much together by him into an epic poem, which is also
better than the paraphrases of Chaucer by Dryden proved by the great number of legends on the same
and Pope, which scarcely give any idea of the origi- subject still extant.-Having given our readers an
nal. Since then the work has continued increasing idea of the general character of the poem, we pro-
in popularity with an acceleration equal to that of ceed to lay before them an account of its plan and
Shakspeare among the English. Editions, transla- contents. It consists of 9640 lines, a length nearly
tions, commentaries, and illustrations of all sorts corresponding to that of the Æneid, and is divided
have been multiplied in rapid succession almost every into 39 cantos or sections. The subject is, in the
year; it has been selected as the subject for a na- first part, the adventures of Siegfrid, the Arthur of
tional gallery of pictures along with the Iliad and Germany; and in the second, the war between Gun-
Odyssey, by the King of Bavaria, to adorn the Grand ther, the King of the Franks, and Attila, the cele-
Museum at Munich; and, to pass over a shoal of brated King of the Huns. The two stories are
minor poets and writers who have taken the subject united, and the latter made poetical instead of poli-
for their theme, it has been celebrated by the two tical by the agency of Chriemhild, the wife of Sieg-
greatest living poets of Germany in their respective frid, whose revenge for the death of her husband (an
departments, having been made the subject of a ro- event which occurs, too early for the wishes of most
mance by Fouqué, the German Walter Scott, and of readers, a little before the middle of the poem) forms
a tragedy by Raupach, which, though of a much lower the subject of the latter half, as in some manuscripts
order of merit than others of his productions, and it gives the title to the whole.
bearing marks of his usual rapidity and carelessness,
is perhaps the greatest favourite, on the whole,
of the modern German theatre.

The poem of The Nibelungen Lied, is fully worthy of all the admiration it has excited in its own country, and even out of it, with all those who can enter into the spirit and genius of ancient poetry. It is incomparably superior to any other relic of the middle ages, and possesses several attractions entirely peculiar to itself, and not shared by any other production. It is the only perfect epic poem of its time, and is remarkable both for its resemblance to, and its difference from, the classical models of antiquity. Tried by the rules of Aristotle, it is faulty in almost every particular; it violates, in its form, all the unities that can be violated in epic poetry; while, in its substance, it possesses a greater unity than perhaps any of them, except the Odyssey-the unity of in

But our present object is not to give an analysis of the poem, nor to point out the numerous beautiful passages in which it abounds, but to give an idea of its general character, as the national epic of ancient Germany. It is the morning star, or rather the morning sun of the second youth of the world,— the period when the human intellect awoke from that reign of darkness which makes a gulf between ancient and modern history. We delight to see a second dawn of childhood similar to the first, and yet original: full of the freshness and brightness of the first, and yet of a different character: a charactetoo that has been remarkably preserved in the Gerr man, and, as Mr. Carlyle has observed, in it alone of all the literatures of modern Europe, down to the present day.

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