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Plan, and esteemed the most practical work of this kind extant. By the Rev. J. GOLDSMITH. Illustrated with a variety of Maps, &c. 2s. 6d. bound in red.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL COPY-BOOK, Part I. Consisting of fifteen Outline Maps of the Quarters and principal Countries in the World, including three ancient Maps, engraved of a competent size, and printed on superfine drawing paper, for the purpose of being filled up from any ordinary Maps, by junior classes of students of Geography, price 3s. THE GEOGRAPHICAL COPY-BOOK, Part II. sisting of the Lines of Latitude and Longitude, accurately drawn for the same set of Maps, designed to be filled up by the senior classes of students of Geography, or by those who have previously filled up Part. I.

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GEOGRAPHY on a POPULAR PLAN, for the use of Schools and Young Persons; containing all the interesting and amusing features of Geographical Knowledge, and calculated to convey instruction by means of the striking and pleasing associations produced by the peculiar manners, customs, and characters of all nations and countries. By the Rev. J. GOLDSMITH. A new edition, considerably enlarged and improved, illustrated with upwards of sixty beautiful engravings, representing the dresses, customs, and habitations of all nations, with numerous maps, &c. price 14s. bound and lettered.

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THE TRAVELS of ROLANDO round the WORLD, explaining, in a familiar manner, the Customs, Curiosities, and Productions of various Countries in remote parts of the World, illustrated with various plates. Translated from Jauffret, by MISS AIKIN. In four volumes, price 14s.

THE BRITISH TOURISTS, or Traveller's Companion, through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, including accurate Descriptions of every Part of the United Kingdom; and comprehending the most celebrated and most interesting Modern Tours through every Part of the British Islands. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL. D. Rector of Stonesfield, Vicar of Hurley, &c. &c. In six elegant volumes, royal 18mo. illustrated with coloured maps, the third edition, much improved and enlarged. Price One Guinea and a-half in boards, or Thirtysix Shillings neatly bound.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL and STATISTICAL DICTION

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History.

AN EASY GRAMMAR of HISTORY, Ancient and Modern, containing a brief expression of the leading facts in His-tory, written so as to be committed to memory, with questions and exercises, by means of which History may be taught in Schools, on the approved plan of Goldsmith's easy Grammar of Geography. By the Rev. J. ROBINSON. With plates, price 3s. bound.

ANCIENT HISTORY, for the use of Schools; exhibiting a summary View of the Rise, Progress, Revolutions, Declineand Fall of the various Nations of Antiquity, from the earliest Records of time to the Fall of the Roman Empire. By the Rev. J. ROBINSON, of Christ's College, Cambridge. In: demy 12mo. illustrated by a large map, price 6s. bound, and lettered on the back.

MODERN HISTORY, for the use of Schools, from the: Age of Charlemagne to the end of the Year 1806, on the plan of the Ancient History. By the Rev. J. ROBINSON. Price 6s. bound and lettered.

THE BRITISH NEPTUNE, or a History of the Rise, Pro gress, and Triumphs of the British Navy, from the time of Al fred to the Glorious Victory of Trafalgar, interspersed with : Anecdotes and Notices of the successive improvements in Navigation, Ship-building, and Naval Tactics. By WILLIAM BURNEY, LL. D. Master of the Naval Academy at Gosport, &c. In a closely printed volume, embellished with Views of great Victories, and a Chart, price 7s. 6d. bound and lettered; (a few copies taken on fine paper, price 10s. 6d. elegantly bound.)

THE NAVAL HEROES of GREAT BRITAIN, or Lives

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THE HISTORY of ENGLAND, from the earliest Records to the General Peace of 1802, written purposely for the use of Schools, and Young Persons of both Sexes. In two thick and closely printed volumes, price 10s. bound, or on fine paper, price 12s. bound; illustrated with twenty-five Historical Designs, and a large Map. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL. D. Vicar of Hurley in Berkshire, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Moira.

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A POETICAL HISTORY of ROME. By the same Author. Price 2s. 6d.

A UNIVERSAL HISTORY, Ancient and Modern, comprehending a general View of the transactions of every Na-.. tion, Kingdom, and Empire on the Globe, from the earliest accounts of time to the general Peace of 1802, in twenty-five volumes, price 4s. and 5s. a volume. By WILLIAM MAVOR,LL, p. Vicar of Hurley, Rector of Stonesfield, and Chaplain to

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The English language has hitherto been without any complete and popular view of Universal History. It will be immediately confessed by every competent judge, that Bossuet is at once too short and unsatisfactory; that Voltaire is too gay and desultory; and that the great English Universal History is rather to be consulted like a Dictionary than to be perused as an analysis of the subject to which it relates. What these writers have not done, has been attempted by the Author of the present Work. He has been solicitous to avoid the extremes of prolixity and brevity; to be distinct, pleasing, and comprehensive. This Work has therefore proved a valuable acquisition to young Persons, to Public Schools, to Ladies, to Circulating Libraries, and, in general, to all persons who do not make Literature the sole business of their lives, and to whom the Universal History, in sixty-six large volumes, is either too voluminous or too expensive.

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Experimental Philosophy and Useful Arts.

AN EASY GRAMMAR of NATURAL and EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, written on the plan of Goldsmith's Grammar of Geography, and Robinson's Grammar of History, and designed as a Practical Elementary Book, to simplify the Study of Philosophy in Schools. By the Rev. DAVID BLAIR, Author of the Class Book, of Exercises in Reading, &c. &c. Price 3s. bound in blue, illustrated by numerous engravings.

In the plan and arrangement of this Work, the Author has followed the justly approved plan of the Works above mentioned, as far as the subjects would admit. The elementary principles of every branch of Philosophy have been briefly explained, and have been demonstrated and familiarized by

experiments, in the performance of which very little apparatus will be requisite.

POPULAR LECTURES on EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, ASTRONOMY, and CHEMISTRY, intended chiefly for the use of Students and young Persons. By G. GREGORY, D.D. In two volumes, 12mo. illustrated by thirty-five superior engravings, price 13s. in boards, and 14s. bound and lettered.

A NEW CYCLOPEDIA; or, COMPENDIOUS DICTIONARY of ARTS and SCIENCES: including every Modern Discovery, and the Present State of every Branch of Human Knowledge. By G. GREGORY, D. D. In a Series of One Hundred and Twenty Numbers, at One Shilling each, which will be published weekly till the Work is completed; or in a Series of Twelve Monthly Parts, at Ten Shillings each; or complete at once in two very large and closely printed volumes, in 4to. illustrated with One Hundred and Fifty superior Engravings, price 64. 65. in boards, or 6. 16s. 6d. bound.

The following are the advantages which are promised to the purchasers of this work.

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A PORTABLE CYCLOPEDIA, containing every thing useful and important in the Present State of the various Arts and Sciences, and as a book of common and convenient re

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