New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-12
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TINS AMERICAN BooKsELLERs COMPLETE hEFks
kNcE Trade LIsr AND ALPHABETICAL CATALOGUE
or BOOKS Published in this Country with the Pub
Hshers and Authors Names and Prices. Arranged
In Glasses for quick end convenient Reference.
Compiled by A BLAKE. To which is added an
Article on the Law OF Copy Right
This is the title OF royal quarto volume of
some 24o pages neatly printed good paper 'Isd for
writing upon, substantially bound, and to all appear
ance. every way well got up. From cur'ory exam
ination should incline to the opinion that It viii be
of incscuabe value to booksellers well as to tera
ry gentlemen. librarians and ohers The Alphabetical
Catalogue which is the crown aud key of the whole
work occupies about sixty very compact pages and em
braces perhaps larger list Of ANkMcAN Books than
WAS ever before published in volume. But this 10
not all BY iudicous Arrangement the inquirer can
not only and at glance the book he lie in search OF,
but by reference to the Publishers Trade List in a
preceding psge he can also II the publisher does his
duty TO himself ascertain with toesble precision the
character OF the work lite contents size style of bind
log and price and from this description be able to de
eide whether OF he will order the book and where
IL may be had We should much exceed the limits pre-
scoed for notices OF this sort we To point out the
many excellent features OF the work before among
which is the appropriate and interesting article 10 su
thors and publshers) on the Law OF Copy Right" II
must suffice TO recommend do most cordially, the
book aud its enerprsng publisher to the favorable at
tention Of booksellers and bookbuyers as a mutual
help to each. Those OF them doing business In this
CITY will and copies We are told for examination and
sale at the stores of Messrs Banga Richards e. Plat
NJ. II Newman & Co and Csdy Burgess.
suxnxl IN rHx WILDERNESS Embracing Canoe
VOYAGE up the Mississippi and around Lake Supc-
Nor: BY CHARLES LANaAN. Author of Essays Tor
Summer Hours, etc. Up. As srno Appleton &
Coz
We like this book 1t is fresh hearty, buoysnt,
and animated by genuine love OF Nature. or the
Indians. the great River, the great Lake the wild
North west. the Copper Region, the Falls OF the
ST. Louis, the Fishing throughout and in short
everything that would naturally atsct rovers eye, We
have here hteike sketches Amos, everything seems
be looked kindly by the author except the Copper
Spectators their plots and their dialect which be re
gsrds with amusing disgust, but since the public has
rarely heard anything from that quarter except on the
Copper side IL high time FOR blast through the other
end OF the horn and we welcome Mr. La book the
more heartily on this account His OF the Fish
and Fishing from st Louis to ssult ST. Marie would do
credit TO Isssk waton--we mean to his enthusiasm
There 10 rarely Issued plesssnser record Of Summer
travels or pleassn,er book for Summer Travellers,
than this and We heartily commend IL to popular ia
yor -
II SILLNAS's AMERICAS JOURNAL or Sci
sSeK AND AIRS" for Msy fully sus.sns the high char
Of the work Toe principal Essays in this number
are % the Glacier Phenomena and Elevation Of Scan
dlaAvs; Prof NoKroNs Analysis Of the ost continued;
on Free Electricity by DR.. HAZE OF Pa J. D. Dana
GA Zooqhytes; Notices Of Koordstsu. by Missionary
New Metal Pelosam, by Prof RosE Prof Z. n
HoKsFoxD on Gelsine Sugar and of its Products
OF Decomposition; JANIS d. DANA the Origin Of
the Grand Outline Features OF the Earth Prof B. sI
LInAS. Jr. on Hydrste Of Nickel. New Mineral =
'Cupeiission with the BOwpipe' BY w. w MArHER
Prof STANLEY Of Yale College. on Mathematical Cseu
Ia,ens The number closes with the usuul interesting
s.i-atiac and Miscellaneous Intelligence.
We take this occasion 10 notice that General In.
dex' 10 this valuable work, since the commencement
(for,ynne yesrs) is now ready for delivery In octave
form with an Iistohea Preface containing much vass
DO information and Portrait Of The Senior Editor The
edition is limited C. : Francis Co. 2o2 Broadway.
Agen, fos this City,