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No. 1. Vol. I. of Flora Carolinæensis ; or, A Historical, Medical, and Econom. ical Display of the Vegetable Kingdom, according to the Linnæan or sexual system of Botany. Being a collection or compilation of the various plants hitherto discovered and made known by the several authors on Botany, &c. By John L. E. W. Shecut. 8vo. pp.88. This work will consist of at least 12 numbers, of about 80 or 90 pages each, which will form two hexades, that may be bound in two octavo volumes. Price to subscribers 50 cents, each number. Charleston, S. C. printed for the author by John Hoff.

Reports of Cases, argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Errours

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Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases: Founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions. With an appendix, con taining observations on bathing, cleanliness, ventilation, and medical elec tricity, and on the abuse of medicine. Enriched with apposite extracts from the best authors. Designed not mere ly for physicians, but for the informa tion of others. To which is annexed, a glossary of the technical terms collLained in the work. By Shadrach Rick

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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, considered in its present state of improvement; describing, in a familiar and easy manner, the principal phenomena of nature; and shewing that they are cooperate in displaying the goodness, wisdom, and power of God. By the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to his majesty, &c. In four volumes. Illustrated with 43 large cop. perplates, elegantly engraved. This American edition printed from the last London edition, edited by Wm. Jones, is carefully revised and corrected by Robert Patterson, professor of mathematicks and teacher of natural philosophy, in the university of Pennsylvania. Vol. I. To this volume is subjoined, by the American editor, A brief outline or compendious system of modern chemistry: compiled from the latest publications on that subject. Price to subscribers $11,50 the set. Philadelphia, Woodward.

Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the year 1802, giving a correct picture of those countries. Translated from the French, with notes, &c. By John Davis. 12mo. pp. 182. New York: Printed by and for I. Riley & Co. Columbian Eloquence; being the speeches of the most celebrated American orators, as delivered in the late trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase, before the senate of the United States. 3 vols. 12mo. Price $1,50. Baltimore.

Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red, and Washita rivers, and countries adjacent, by Captains Lewis and Clarke, Dr. Sibley, Wm. Dunbar, Esq. and Dr. Hunter; with an appendix, by Mr. Dunbar, not before published, containing list of stages and distances on the Red and Washita rivers to the Hot Springs; lists of the most obvious vegetable productions of the Washita country, which are indigenous or growing without culivation; notice of certain vegetables, part of which are supposed to be new; of the medical properties of the salt springs, &c. 8vo. Natchez, Louisiana.

Sermons to young people; preached A. D. 1803, 1804, on the following subjects: faith and practice; inquiry concerning eternal life; religion our own choice; indecision in religion; the principle of virtue; God's glory

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A Chart, entitled, Tables for computing the effect of refraction on lunar distances. Published by Peter Delamar, No. 81, North Second Street, Philadelphia.

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A favourite selection of musick, adapted to the Piano Forte; consisting of the newest and most fashionable songs, airs, marches, &c. comick and sentimental. Designed for practition ers. By O. Shaw and H. Mann. $1. Dedham, H. Mann..

A Collection of Divine Musick, consisting of Psalms, Hymns, Chants, and Anthems, for one, two, three, and four voices, with accompaniments for the organ and piano forte. pp. 120. Pricę $1,75. Philadelphia, John Aitken.

The American Reader; consisting of a selection of familiar, instructive, and entertaining stories. By Herman

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A Treatise on the Courts for the trial of small causes, held by justices of the peace in the state of New Jersey. By William Sandford Pennington, Esq. one of the justices of the supreme court of that state. 12mo. pp. 300. Newark, N. J. Tuttle & Co.

An Inquiry, into the effects of our foreign carrying trade upon the agriculture, population, and morals of the people. By Columella. Price 37 cts. New-York, Ezra Sargent.

Experience, or, Folly as it Flies. A poem, delivered at Cambridge, on the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, August 8, 1806. By Benjamin Whitwell. 8vo. Boston, Munroe & Francis.

An oration on Eloquence, delivered at Burlington, Ver. May 12, 1806, on the anniversary of the Phi, Sigma, Nu Society, in Burlington College. By Gardner Child, member of the senior class. 8vo. Price 25 cts. Burlington, Greenleaf & Mills.

A discourse delivered at the dedication of the new academy in Fryeburg. June 4, 1806. By Rev. Nathaniel Porter, A. M. Published at the request of the trustees. Portland, B. Wait. 8vo.

Discourses on the sovereign and universal agency of God, in nature and grace. By the Rev. Robert M'Dowall, minister of the Reformed Dutch church in Ernest-town, Upper Canada. Webster and Shinner. 1806.

Discourse at a publice meeting of a number of Singers, who were improv. ing themselves in church musick. By Nathaniel Emmons, D. D. Providence, R. I. David Hawkins, jun.

A sermon, delivered at New-Boston, N. H. Feb. 26, 1806, at the ordination of Rev. Ephraim P. Bradford, to the pastoral care of the Presbyterian church and society in that place. By Jesse Appleton, Congregational minister in Hampton. 8vo. Amherst, J. Cushing.

A discourse delivered before the members of the Portsmouth Female Asylum, at a third service, on the Sab. bath, Aug. 10, 1806. By J. Appleton. Portsmouth, S. Whidden.

A Wreath for the Rev. Daniel Dow, pastor of a church in Thompson, Con. on the publication of his Familiar Letters, in answer to the Rev. John Sherman's treatise of one God in one person only, &c. By A. O. F. Utica, Merrel and Seward.

A sermon preached at the ordination of the Rev. Nathan Waldo, A B. in Williamstown, Vt. Feb. 26, 1806. By Elijah Parish, A. M. pastor of the church in Byefield, Mass. Hanover, N. H. Moses Davis. pp. 16.

The Sixth of August, or the Litchfield Festival. An address to the people of Connecticut. Hudson & Goodwin. Sept. 1806.

An American Primer; including the Wesminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism, divided into forty-six lessons, with contents, notes, and hymns, Salem, Joshua Cushing.

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The Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, late prime minister of Great-Britain, with biographical notices of the whole of his distinguished contemporaries, particularly Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Lord Grenville, Mr. Windham, Mr. Wilberforce, Viscount Melville, Mr. Grattan, Lord Erskine, Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Sidmouth, Earl Spencer, Mr. Tierney, &c. Embellished with an excellent likeness, engraved by Edwin. Price $1, in boards. Phila delphia, John Watts.

Annals of the Right Hon. William Pitt. 12mo. pp. 158. Philadelphia, B. Graves, for Hugh Maxwell, &c.

Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, and of his fam ily, his court, his ministers, his acad. emies, and literary friends. Collected during a familiar intercourse of twenty years with that prince. Translated from the French of Dieudonné Thiebault, professor of belles lettres in the royal academy of Berlin. In 2 vols. Vol. I. pp. 434. 8vo. Philadelphia, E. Bronson.

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The Secret History of the court and cabinet of St. Cloud. The third American edition. 12mo. price $1,25. Philadelphia, John Watts.

Pope's Homer's Iliad. 2 vols. 12mo. Boston, E. Cotton.

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Philosophical remarks on the Christian religion; by the Rev. J. Moir, A.M. Philadelphia, Robert Mills.

Practical Philosophy of Social Life ; or, The art of conversing with men : after the German of Baron Knigge. By P. Will, minister of the Reformed German congregation in the Savoy. First American edition. 8vo. pp. 368. Lansingburgh, N.Y. Penniman & Bliss.

The First Church Collection of Sacred Musick. Second edition. 136. Boston, Thomas & Andrews.

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A Review of the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in his transactions with Nathaniel Jeffries, late member of parliament-in which are included several particulars relative

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Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary. 2d American Edition.

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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by himself. 12mo. 1 vol. The second American edition. New-York, Brisban & Brannan. [Messrs. D. West, J. West, and O. C. Greenleaf, of this town, have also an edition of this work in the press, 1 vol. 12mo.]

Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq. with a collection of his genuine bon-mots, anecdotes, opinions, &c. mostly original, and three of his dramatick pieces, not published in his works. By William Cooke, Esq. 2 vols. 12mo. York, Peter A. Mesier.

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Robert's Treatise on Frauds. NewYork, Isaac Riley and Co.

Carr's Northern Summer. 12mo. $1,25. New-London, Cady and Eels.

I. Riley & Co. booksellers of New York, have in the press and will shortly publish, a topographical and statistical account of the city of New-York and its environs, to be intitled, "The picture of New-York, or the Traveller's Guide in New-York and its vicinity." This work is intended to be published in a neat pocket volume, and to comprise the principal information of which travellers and strangers stand in need. It will be executed after the manner of the Guides to Paris, London, Oxford, and other remarkable places in Europe. To render this work more interesting and useful, it will be accompanied by maps of the city, of the surrounding country of the state. It will also be embellished with engravings of several picturesque scenes, such as the falls of the Passaic and Niagara, the passage of the Hudson through the mountains,

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The American Builder's Companion, or system of architecture, containing 44 neatly executed engravings, under the inspection of Ashur Benjamin, archi tect and carpenter, and D. Raynard, architect and stucco worker, authors of the work. Boston, Etheridge & Bliss.

The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare, with Dr. Samuel Johnson's Preface and Notes. Second edition. Boston, Munroe & Francis.

The sale of the whole of their first edition and the frequent demand for copies have induced the publishers to propose a second. It will be printed correctly from Dr. Johnson's octavo edition, which is allowed to give the true text of Shakespeare, in eight 12mo. vols. each embellished with an engraved title-page. It will be delivered to sub. scribers in half volumes, sewed in red, at 42 cts. payable on delivery. A list of the subscribers' names will accompany the last No. The work contains

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Delolme on the Constitution of England; or, an account of the English government, in which it is compared with the republican form of government and the other monarchies in Europe. By J. D. Delolme, advocate. I vol. 8vo. pp. 500. $2 in boards. Hallowell, Maine, J. Johnson.

Burlamaqui on Natural and Political Law. 1 vol. 8vo. Cambridge, Hilliard.

An abridgment of the system of midwifery. By N. Chapman, M. D. honourary member of the royal medical

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Johnson's Works, in 15 pocket vols. Cambridge, Hilliard.

Contemplations on the Sacred History, altered from the works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D. D. sometime Lord Bishop of Norwich. By the Rev. George Henry Glasse, M.A. Rector of Hanwell, Middlesex, and Chaplain to the Earl of Radnor. From the 3d edition, 4 vols. in 3, of about 350 each. 12mo. Price $3. Philadelphia, W. W. Woodward.

The Works of Dr. Edward Young. 2 vols. 12mo. 400 pages each. Price in boards $2,50. Boston, Hosea Sprague.

Biographical Sketches of the late Rev. John Gano, written principally by himself. 12mo. pp. 180. 75 cts. bound. Cincinnati (Ohio) Spy Office.

The Voter's Guide: or, the power, duty, and privilege of the constitutional voters in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, To which are added, original remarks, with various extracts from historians and the writings and publick speeches of eminent political characters in this and other countries, tending to explain the causes of the rise and fall of republicks. 12mo. pp. 150. Price 50 cts. in boards. Leominster, Massa. S. & J. Wilder.

Rudiments of the Art of Playing on the Piano-Forte, containing elements of musick, &c. Boston, G. Graupner.

GREAT-BRITAIN. Henry Richard, Lord Holland, has lately published a literary work, entitled, "Some account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio." 8vo. 9s. boards.

On January the first, 1807, will be commenced, in London, a new monthly publication, entitled The Athenæum ; a magazine of literary and miscellaneous information. Conducted by J. Aikin, M.D. Of this work, the first part will be devoted to general correspondence, comprising in its topicks all interesting matter of inquiry or information in polite literature, antiquities, science, philosophy, natural history, statisticks, domestick economy, manners, &c. In this department, controversial discussions, within the bounds of moderation and decorum, will be freely admitted; que

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