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VALUABLE WORKS,
NOW PREPARING,
AND SPEEDILY TO BE PUBLISHED,
BY
CAREY, LEA & CAREY, PHILADELPHIA.

April, 1827.

  • The PRAIRIE; by the author of the Spy, Pioneers, &c. In 2
    vols. 12mo.

  • NOVELS and TALES, by the same author, uniform edition, in
    10 vols. embracing The Spy, The Pioneers, The Pilot, Lionel Lincoln,
    and The Last of the Mohicans.

  • LIFE of NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE; with a Preliminary
    View of the French Revolution. By the author of Waverley. In 2
    vols. 8vo.

  • CHRONICLES of the CANONGATE, by the author of Waverley.
    In 2 vols.

  • PERSONAL NARRATIVE of a JOURNEY from INDIA to ENGLAND,
    by Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the
    Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan,
    Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, in the year 1824.
    By Captain the Hon. George Keppel.

    All the Magazines and Reviews have united in giving this work the
    highest character.

  • ELEMENTS of the PHILOSOPHY of the HUMAN MIND. By
    Dugald Stewart, Vol. III.

    Just Published

  • AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. I. second edition.

    With regard to the subjects which are embraced in the design of
    the American Quarterly Review, its title and the common and known
    contents of the existing models bespeak them sufficiently. Preference
    must be given to works and materials, to principles and opinions,
    specially interesting and useful to our own country, whether they be
    of domestic or foreign origin. Mere party or local politics, polemical
    theology, involving injurious and irritating imputations, and whatever
    tends to disturb essential morals, fundamental Christian faith, or republican
    theory, will be rigorously excluded. As the work is not
    meant to be devoted to the views or favourite ends of any member or
    section of the Union, neither will it be to any exclusive or partial doctrines
    in any of the admitted subjects. The utmost latitude of opinion
    and discussion will be allowed, that is compatible with the limits, temper,
    and general merit to be required in each article. The resources
    and connexions of the proprietors are such, as to place within their
    reach copious information of the cotemporary literature and public
    concerns of the principal countries of Europe and America; and they
    will sedulously avail themselves of all the means of the kind which
    they can command, for the enrichment of the Review. They scarcely
    need to add, that the work will be truly American in spirit and drift;
    patriotism, alert, emphatic, resolute, militant even under certain circumstances,
    is a trait which should distinguish it and every similar
    production of this country.

    Terms of Publication.—It will be handsomely printed in octavo, and
    will appear on the first of March, June, September, and December.
    The price will be $5 per annum. Gentlemen at a distance, who desire
    to have it forwarded to them, will please to transmit the amount


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    of one year's subscription to the publishers, or to any of the annexed
    list of agents.

    Maine—Hallowell, Glazier & Co.; Portland, W. Hyde.—New Hampshire—Portsmouth,
    J. F. Shores; Concord, Isaac Hill.—Vermont—Castleton,
    Chauncey Goodrich; Brattleborough, Holbrook and Fessenden.
    Massachusetts—Boston, Munroe & Francis, Richardson & Lord; Salem,
    J. R. Buffum; New Bedford, A. Shearman, jr. & Co.; Northampton,
    Simeon Butler.—Rhode Island—Providence, George Dana; Newport,
    W. & J. H. Barber.—Connecticut—New Haven, H. Howe; Hartford,
    O. D. Cooke & Sons.—New York—New York, G. & C. Carvill;
    Albany, E. F. Backus; Troy, W. S. Parker; Utica, W. Williams;
    Poughkeepsie, P. Potter; Hudson, W. E. Norman.—New Jersey
    Trenton, D. Fenton; New Brunswick, Terhune & Letsom; Princeton,
    J. Vandeventer.—Pennsylvania—Lancaster, M. Dickson; Harrisburg,
    John Wyeth; Carlisle, Lockerman & Scott; Pittsburg; Johnson
    & Stockton.—Maryland—Baltimore, Edward J. Coale; Fredericktown,
    J. P. Thompson; Annapolis, G. Shaw.—District of Columbia—Washington,
    Pishey Thompson; Alexandria, J. A. Stewart.—Virginia—Norfolk,
    C. Hall, C. Bonsal; Richmond, J. H. & T. Nash; Petersburg, J.
    W. Campbell; Lynchburg, A. R. North.—North Carolina—Newbern,
    Thomas Watson; Raleigh, J. Gales & Son; Fayetteville, J. Hadlock.—
    South Carolina—Charleston, W. H. Berrett; Columbia, J. R. Arthur;
    Beaufort, D. Turner.—Georgia—Savannah, W. T. Williams; Augusta,
    R. D. Treadwell.—Ohio—Cincinnati, N. & G. Guilford.—Kentucky
    Lexington, James W. Palmer; Louisville, J. P. Morton.—Tennessee
    Nashville, Robertson & Elliott.—Mississippi—Natchez, H. Moss & Co.
    Louisianu—New Orleans, William M`Kean.—Mexico—Mexico, G.
    Ackermann.—London—John Miller, New-Bridge Street.—Paris—A.
    & W. Galignani, Rue Vivienne.

  • FAIRY LEGENDS and TRADITIONS of the SOUTH of
    IRELAND. First American from the second London edition, with
    plates.

  • AMERICA: or a General Survey of the Political Situation of the
    several Powers of the Western Continent, with Conjectures on their
    Future Prospects. Matre pulchrâ filia pulchrior. By a Citizen of the
    United States, author of “Europe,” &c.

  • HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, and STATISTICAL AMERICAN
    ATLAS, on the plan of Le Sage, containing 51 maps. Third
    edition, greatly improved.

  • TALES of a VOYAGER, consisting of Stories told at Sea, during
    a Voyage to the Arctic Ocean. In 2 vols. 12mo.

    “The author's forte is essentially humorous, and his humour is of
    the spirit and quality of W. Irving's, combined with incomparably more
    fancy and vivacity.”

    New Times.

  • PAUL JONES; a Romance. By Allan Cunningham. In 3
    vols. 12mo.

    “There is much powerful writing in these volumes; many of their
    scenes are depicted with extraordinary vigour and effect; and the author
    has shown himself a poet in every sense of the word.”

    La Belle
    Assemblée
    .

  • TALES, by the O'HARA FAMILY; second series, containing
    The Nowlans and Peter of the Castle. In 2 vols. 12mo.

    It may well be questioned, whether any story was ever written of a
    more affecting and tragical character than “The Nowlans,” in the
    present work. Most assuredly there is no need of German horrors
    and improbabilities to excite our emotions, when ordinary life teems


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    with such melancholy events. Some of these, with the remarkable
    adjuncts which are presented by the peculiar state of society in Ireland,
    and the conflicting interests of two modes of faith, are depicted
    with fearful energy in this tale, which, having once read, it will not
    be easy to forget.

  • INGRAHAM on INSOLVENCY.

  • REPORTS of DECISIONS in the ENGLISH COURTS of
    COMMON LAW. Edited by Thomas Sergeant and J. C. Lowber,
    Esqs. Vols. X. and XI. (The previous volumes may yet be had on
    application to the publishers.)

  • The GOLDEN VIOLET, with its Tales of Romance and Chivalry,
    and other Poems. By L. E. L.

    “There is a grandeur in it which shows the possession of masculine
    powers, while its tenderness and pathos are feminine to the utmost.
    We confess we are lost in amazement at what she has accomplished,
    and look forward with strange and indefinable anticipations
    of what such a mind may perform.”

    London Literary Gazette.

  • SECRET MEMOIRS of the ROYAL FAMILY of FRANCE,
    during the REVOLUTION; with Original and Authentic Anecdotes
    of cotemporary sovereigns and distinguished persons of that eventful
    period, now first published from the Journal, Letters, and Conversations
    of the Princess Lamballe, by a lady of rank in the confidential
    service of that unfortunate princess.

  • ATLANTIC SOUVENIR, a Christmas and New Year's Present
    for 1827. This work contains above forty articles in prose and
    poetry, by some of the best American writers, and is ornamented with
    ten engravings, executed in the best style by Longacre, Maverick,
    Ellis, Childs, Kearny, and Gobrecht.

  • REPORTS of WILLIAM STRICKLAND, Esq. Engineer,
    Agent for the Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement,
    on a Tour through Great Britain in 1825:—

    • Upon Canals. This report embraces the method of forming canals
      on precarious and infirm foundations, with the most approved
      plans of building lock walls, gates, valves, sluices, and aqueducts.

    • On Canal Boats. Plans, elevations, and sections of canal boats,
      with and without striking masts.

    • On the breakwater and artificial harbour now constructing at the
      entrance into the Bay of Dublin, containing plans, sections, and elevations.

    • On cranes and hoisting machines. Drawings and descriptions of
      the cranes used for loading, and unloading canal and other boats, and
      for hoisting and setting stone in the building of locks, &c

    • On tunnelling; including a full and accurate account of the
      Harecastle, and Thames and Medway tunnels, accompanied by plans,
      and sections, of the working and air shafts, horse gins, centring, and
      other machinery used in the construction of these great works.

    • On railways and locomotive engines, containing details of the
      several forms of rails, and the method of fixing them upon their foundations.
      The construction and use of the brake upon inclined planes.
      The formation of wagons, sidelings, and passing places, together with
      the most approved plans of crossing public roads.

    • On turnpike roads.

    • On the manufacture of iron, and of oil and coal gas.

    • On coking bituminous coal, and on making cast and blister steel,
      with plans and sections of the furnaces, and descriptions of the instruments
      used in the conversion of iron into those valuable articles.


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    • On rollers of copper. A drawing and description of the method
      used in manufacturing copper rollers for the printing of calico.

    The work contains seventy-one large engravings—some of them
    two and three feet long, in folio, half-bound, in the atlas form. Price
    $10.

  • THE YOUNG RIFLEMAN'S COMRADE, being the Narrative
    of his Military Adventures, Captivity and Shipwreck. Edited by
    Goethe. In 1 vol. 12mo.

  • LETTERS from the BAHAMA ISLANDS, written in the
    years 1823 and 1824. In 1 vol. foolscap, 8vo.

  • THE TOR HILL; by the author of Brambletye House, in 2
    vols. 12mo.

  • RECOLLECTIONS of the LIFE of JOHN O'KEEFE, written
    by himself. In 1 vol. 8vo.

  • RUSSIAN TALES, from the French of Count Xavier de
    Maistre, author of the Leper of Aost, in 1 vol. foolscap 8vo. For the
    character of this work, see North American Review, Jan. 1827.

  • JOURNAL of a THIRD VOYAGE for the Discovery of a
    North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in
    the years 1824-25. Under the orders of Captain Edward William
    Parry,
    with map.

  • DISCOVERIES in AFRICA. Narrative of the Travels of
    Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Dr. Oudney, in Northern
    and Central Africa, with maps.

  • The LAST of the MOHICANS, a Narrative of 1757, by the
    author of the Spy, &c. 2d edit.

  • OBSERVATIONS on ITALY, by the late John Bell, Fellow
    of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, &c. In 12mo.

  • The OPERATIVE MECHANIC and BRITISH MACHINIST,
    in 2 vols. 8vo. illustrated with copper-plate engravings of several
    hundred subjects.

    Exhibiting the actual construction and practical uses of all machinery
    and implements at present used in the manufactories of Great
    Britain, with the real processes adopted in perfecting the useful arts
    and national manufactures of every description. By John Nicholson,
    civil engineer. First American, from the last London edition, with
    considerable additions. In one large vol. 8vo.

    This volume is designed to display, in a succinct and cheap form,
    and in a correct and comprehensive manner, the actual state of scientific
    improvement as it is at present applied to the productive industry
    of this empire; not as the same knowledge already exists in books,
    but as it is actually found in workshops and manufactories of the
    highest character. It will therefore, convey every desirable information
    to the studious and improving mechanic and manufacturer, relative
    to Engines and Constructions particularly, and to all branches of the
    Metallic, Woollen, Cotton, Linen, Silk, Porcelain, and other important
    Manufactures.

    The strongest proof of the value and popularity of this volume, is
    the rapid sale of two large editions in the course of a few months.

    “It is a really practical book. Nothing seems to be omitted which
    would properly add to its completeness. It is above all price.”

    Birmingham
    Chronicle
    .

  • MILLWRIGHT and MILLER'S GUIDE, by Oliver Evans.
    New edition, with additions and corrections, by the Professor of Mechanics
    in the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, and a description of
    an improved Merchant Flour-Mill, with engravings, by C. & O. Evans.
    Engineers.


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  • The HISTORY of the CRUSADES for the Recovery and
    Possession of the Holy Land, by Charles Mills, Esq. author of the
    History of Knighthood and its Times. First American from the third
    London edition, 8vo.

  • The HISTORY of CHIVALRY; or Knighthood and its
    Times. By Charles Mills, Esq. author of “The History of the Crusades,
    &c.” In one vol. 8vo.

    “This was an appropriate undertaking for the able author of the
    Crusades, and he has executed it with equal learning, fidelity, and
    elegance.”

    Monthly Review.

  • NOTES on COLOMBIA, taken in the years 1822-3. With
    an Itinerary of the Route from Caracas to Bogotá; with an Appendix.
    By an Officer of the United States' Army. In 8vo. with a map and
    plates.

  • A CONNECTED VIEW of the whole INTERNAL NAVIGATION
    of the UNITED STATES, natural and artificial, present
    and prospective. In 8vo. with eleven maps.

  • MEMOIRS of the HISTORICAL SOCIETY of PENNSYLVANIA,
    vol. 2.

  • GASTON DE BLONDEVILLE; or the Court of Henry
    III. keeping Festival in Ardenne, a romance; St. Alban's Abbey, a
    metrical romance, and other poems, by Mrs. Radcliffe, author of
    Mysteries of Udolpho, &c. &c. four vols. in two, 12mo.

    “The posthumous works of Mrs. Radcliffe, are altogether a valuable
    accession to the National literature.”

    Literary Gazette.

  • A TREATISE on the MEDICAL and PHYSICAL
    TREATMENT of CHILDREN, by W. P. Dewees, M. D. Adjunct
    Professor of Midwifery in the University of Pennsylvania, 2d edition,
    enlarged and improved.

    This work, containing the results of a most extensive and valuable
    experience, is designed for the use of parents and guardians of children,
    as well as for professional men. To physicians it will prove a valuable
    assistant in the treatment of the various diseases incident to the
    mother and child, while to those who by distance or accident have it
    not in their power to procure professional aid, it may prove the means
    of preserving the health and lives of their tender offspring. The very
    general approbation it has met with from the profession in Europe
    and America, renders it unnecessary to enter into a farther detail of
    its merits.

  • A COMPLETE GENEALOGICAL, HISTORICAL,
    CHRONOLOGICAL, and GEOGRAPHICAL ATLAS; being a General
    Guide to History, ancient and modern. Exhibiting an accurate account
    of the Origin, Descent, and Marriages of all the principal Royal
    Families, from the beginning of the world to the present time. Together
    with the various Possessions, Foreign Wars, celebrated Battles,
    and remarkable Events, to the Battle of Waterloo, and General Peace
    of 1815; according to the plan of Le Sage. Greatly improved. The
    whole forming a complete system of Geography and History. By M.
    Lavoisne. From the last London edition, improved by C. Gros, of
    the University of Paris, and J. Aspin, Professor of History, &c. Carefully
    revised and corrected. Enlarged by the addition of several
    Charts and Maps of American History and Geography. Completed
    to the year 1821, containing 71 maps. In folio.

  • HISTORICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL,
    and STATISTICAL ATLAS of NORTH and SOUTH AMERICA and
    the WEST INDIES, with all their divisions into States, Kingdoms


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    &c. on the plan of Le Sage, and intended as a companion to Lavoisne's
    Atlas. In one vol. folio, containing 54 maps.

  • A Splendid Edition of the HOLY BIBLE; in royal quarto, embellished
    with 31 engravings, executed in the finest style, by Charles
    Heath
    and Benjamin Tanner, from designs by Richard Westall,
    R. A. Price $30. Splendidly bound in morocco. Same work, on the
    finest royal drawing paper, in 2 vols. Price $ 50.

  • A FLORA of NORTH AMERICA, illustrated by above 100
    coloured Figures, drawn from nature. By W. P. C. Barton, M. D.
    U. S. N. Professor of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. In 8
    vols. 4to.

  • ACCOUNT of an EXPEDITION from PITTSBURG to the
    ROCKY MOUNTAINS, performed in the years 1819-20, by order of
    the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of
    Major S. H. Long, of the United States' Topographical Engineers.
    Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen
    of the party, by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist to the
    Expedition. In two vols. 8vo. with a quarto volume, containing maps
    and plates.

  • LONG'S SECOND EXPEDITION—Narrative of an EXPEDITION
    to the SOURCE of the ST. PETER'S, LAKE WINNIPECK,
    LAKE of the WOODS, &c. performed in the year 1823; by order of
    the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War; under the direction of
    Stephen H. Long, Major of the United States' Engineers. Complied
    from the Notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, Colhoun, and
    other gentlemen of the party, by William H. Keating, A. M. &c. &c.
    Professor of Mineralogy and Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania,
    and Geologist and Historiographer to the Expedition. In 2 vols.
    8vo. with plates.

  • MEMOIRS of RICHARD HENRY LEE of VIRGINIA, by
    his grandson, Richard Henry Lee, Esq. In 2 vols. 8vo. with a Portrait.
    .

    This work embraces an extensive body of correspondence with
    all the distinguished men of the Revolution. Also, a copy of the original
    Draft of the Declaration of Independence, by Mr. Jefferson.

  • WOODSTOCK; or the CAVALIER. By the author of Waverley.
    In 2 vols. 12mo.

  • NOVELS and TALES, by the author of Waverley, complete
    in 19 vols. 12mo.

  • The DYING PEASANT, and other Poems, by William
    Carey,
    Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Institution, &c. &c. With
    a portrait of the author.

  • POCKET DICTIONARY of the SPANISH and ENGLISH
    LANGUAGES. Complied from the last improved editions of Neuman
    and Baretti. In two parts—Spanish and English—English and
    Spanish.

  • UNIVERSAL HISTORY AMERICANISED. In 12 vols. By
    David Ramsay, M. D. author of the History of the American Revolution.

  • NOTES on VIRGINIA. By Thomas Jefferson. New edition.

  • TOUR of DR. SYNTAX in SEARCH of CONSOLATION. In
    8vo. with 24 coloured plates.


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