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IThis day was published,
Complete in One Volume wan, of
ies. boards,
A New Edition of
APRACTICAL SYNorsts Ctf the MATERIA ALT..
MINTAIIA and MATZII.II. MEDICA ; comprising the lat-
est Improvements in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Phar-
macopeia'.
By RICHARD PEARSON, M.D.
Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and formerly Phy-
skim to the General Hospital, near Birmingham.
Printed for John Murray, Fleet-street ;C. and R. Baldwin.
New Bridge-street, London, and Archibald Constable and Co.

Edinburgi
Where mrthe had, by the same Author,
Thesaurus Medicaminum, a new collection of Medical Pres-
criptions, M edition, BTo. price 75.6 d.

This day was published, in Quarto,
To be continued Monthly, Part I. price 10s. 6d. of a
GENERAL COLLECTION of VOYAGES and TIIA.
vsts—forming a complete History of the Origin and Pro-
gress of Discovery, by See anti Land, from the earliest Ages to
the present Time. Preceded by an Ill,torical Introduction, atui
Critical Catalogue of Books of Voyages and Travels—and illus-
trated and adorned with numerous Engravings.
By JOHN PINKER'TON.
Aw.hw of Modern Geography, itc.
Printed for Lot g non, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paterlloster.
row ; and Cadell a Id Davies, Strand.
•• This work will be handsomely printed in decoy quarto, on
a new type, and it Is expected will be completed in 10 or 12 vol.
A Part, or quarter of a volume, price 105.6 d. will be published
on the I it day of every month, and will contain 25 sheets of letter
press, besi les engravings.
gtr The object of this Co le tion will be to preserve what is
most importan and interes ng in the numerous books of Voy-
ages and Travels which! aie at any time appeared. The arrange-
ment will therefore be such, that sometimes a single volume,
sometimes two, will be allotted to larticular countries and por-
tions of the world, and form as it were complete edifices in them-
selves. his proposed that Europe will assume the first rank ; and
the first volumes will present the most curious and interesting
Voyages and "Traub ti the remote parts of that division of the
globe, as Iceland, Lapland, Nova Zembla, Spitsbergen, etc.—
Some short narratives 6f travels still remain in manuscript in va-
rious libraries ; these, when really interesting, will be inserted,
or extracts of them introduced. All the Travels in foreign lan-
guages willlse traoslased or abridged with great fidelity and ex-
ecutes*, so as to constitute a work of authentic reference.

BRITISH GALLERY OF PICTURES.
ender the Superintendence ofTlasna se, Or r teri andTomenes,
This day was published, No. I. to be continued Monthly, of
THE BRITISH GALLERY Of PICTWURI; 41 tWO SITiES.
Comprieing Engravings of all the celebrated Pictures of the
great Masters in the United Kingdom, with historical sal descrip-
tive letter-prep.
No. I. That Series; containing two Plates, representing eleven
Pictures in the Marquis of Stafford's Collection ; on elephant eto.
10a. ild ; on atlas 4to.with proof impressions on India paper, 11. le.
on atlaseto. with the prints slightly coloured, 11. 11.. 6d.
No. I. Second Series; containing, the Woman taken in Adul-
tery, by Ruben', in the Collection of Henry Hope, Esq.; on atlas
4to. price 10s. 6d.; on colombier folio, with proof impressions of
the plates on India , 11. Is.; on colombier folio, with the
prints highly ' in colours, in imitation of the original Pic-
tures, EL Es.
The Historical Part by William Young Ottley, Esq. F. R.S. A.
The Descriptive Part by Henry Tresham, Esquire, R. A. and
W. Y. Ottley, Esq. The Engravings, by Mr. P. W. Tonildns,
Historical Engraver to her Majesty, who has the Management of
the executive Part of the Work ; Mr. L. Schiavonetti, Mr. A.
Cardon, and other eminent Engravers. The Drawings of the
First Series by Mr. W. M. Craig, and of the Second Series by
Messrs. Tomkins, Uvrins, Violet, Hodgson, Ansel, Satchwell,
Etc. Under the Superintendence of
HENRY TRESHAIvf, Esq. R. A.
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Pater/water-
row ,• J. White, Fleet .street; Well and Davies, Strand; and P.
W. Tomklns, New Bond-street.
• • A mixed manner of Engraving has been chosen foe the
present Work, as acknowledged to be the beet means of imitating
accurately the peculiar style of the Master, and the touch of the
Pencil, either in Chiaroscuro, or with the additional advantap
of colours, on their peculiar excellence in which the celebrity of
many of the most distinguished Masters is founded. The object
of the present undertaking is to give a finished faithful represent".
'lon of the original Picture. under all the corrilaination of style of
drawing, composition, light and shadow, and colouring.
N. B. For further partiallarS, see the Protium.