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Mémoires de M. le Marquis de Feuquiere, contenans ses Maximes sur
la Guerre et l'application des Exemples aux Maximes, avec Plans et
Cartes, 4 vol. 12mo, Par. 1740.

Schiller's History of the Thirty Years War in Germany, 2 vol. 8vo. 1799.
Tielke's Account of the most remarkable Events of the War between

the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians, from 1756 to 1763, and a
Treatise on several Branches of the Military Art, by Capts. C. and
R. Crauford, 2 vol. 8vo. 1787.

Anthing's History of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suworow
Rymnikski, 2 vol. 8vo. 1799.

Stedman's (Cha.) History of the American War, 2 vol. 4to. 1794.
Tarleton's History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in North Ame-
rica, 4to. 1787.

Drinkwater's History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 4to. 1790.

Orme's History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in
Indostan, from 1745 to 1761, 3 vol. 4to. 1803.

Dirom's Narrative of the Campaign in India, which terminated the War
with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792, 4to. 1794.

Sir Robert Thomas Wilson's History of the British Expedition to Egypt,

4to. 1803.

Walsh's (Tho.) Journal of the Campaign in Egypt, 4to. 1803.

Moore's (James) Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in
Spain, commanded by Sir John Moore, 4to. 1809.

CLASS IV.

BELLES LETTRES.

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SECTION I.

1. Introduction to the Study of the Belles Lettres.

Rollin's Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, 3 vol.
8vo. 1769.

Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 3 vol. 8vo. 1803.
Gibbon, Essai sur l'Etude de la Littérature.-Miscell. Works, vol. 2.
Vossius de Studiorum ratione, generalis et particularis.-Opera, vol. 4.

2. Origin and Progress of Language and Letters.

Gul. Nicols, de Litteris Inventis Libri VI. 8vo. 1716. with the portrait of the Earl of Pembroke.

C. de Brosses, Traité de la formation méchanique des Langues et des
Principes Physiques de l'Etymologie, 2 vol. 12mo. Paris, 1801.
De Maupertuis sur l'Origine des Langues, et la Signification des Mots.
-Oeuvres, tom. 1.

sur les differents moyens dont les Hommes se sont servis pour exprimer leurs idées.-Oeuvres, tom. 3.

Linguæ Osca, Specimen Singulare-Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum— Monumenta vet. Etruscorum, cum Adnotationibus J. Bapt. Passerii, fol. Rom. 1773.

Knight's (R. P.) Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet, 4to. 1791. Bern. De Montfaucon, Palæographia Græca, sive de Ortu et Progressu Literarum Græcarum, fol. Par. 1708.

J. Chamberlaynii Oratio Dominica in diversas omnium fere Gentium Linguas versa, et propriis Characteribus expressa, cum Dissertat. Varior. de Linguarum Origine, &c. 4to. Amst. 1715.

Dr. Cha. Morton's Table of Alphabets, 1759,-bound with Antiquary Society's Prints.

Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters explained, with an Account of the Egyptian Priests, their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices, in the Arabic Language, by Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahзhis; and in English by Joseph Hammer, 4to. 1806.

Fry's (Edm.) Pantographia; containing accurate Copies of all the known Alphabets in the World; with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each Letter, 8vo. 1799.

Stackhouse's (Tho.) Reflections on the Nature and Property of Languages, 8vo. 1731.

Thornton's (Wm.) Cadmus: a Treatise on the Elements of Written Language, 8vo. Philadelphia, 1793.

Lord Monboddo on the Origin and Progress of Language, 6 vol. 8vo. 1774.

Wise's (Francis) Enquiries concerning the first Inhabitants, Language, Religion, Learning, and Letters of Europe, 4to. Oxon. 1758. Parsons's (Ja.) Remains of Japhet: being Enquiries into the affinity and origin of the European Languages, 4to. 1767.

Schoell, (Frederic) Tableau des Peuples qui habitent l'Europe, classés d'après les Langues qu'ils parlent, et Tableau des Religions qu'ils professent, 8vo. Par. 1812.

Joan. Picardi de Prisca Celtopædia Libri V. 4to. Paris, 1556. Pelloutier, (Sim.) Histoire des Celtes, et particulièrement des Gaulois et des Germains, 12mo. Haye, 1740.

Pezron's Antiquities of Nations; more particularly of the Celta or Gauls, taken to be originally the same People as our Ancient Britains: containing great Variety of Etymological Discoveries, by D. Jones,

1706.

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Jones's (Rowland) Origin of Language and Nations, Hieroglyfically, Etymologically, and Topografically defined and fixed, after the method of an English, Celtic, Greek and Latin English Lexicon,

8vo. 1764.

Cleland's (John) Way to Things by Words, and to Words by Things;
being a Sketch of an Attempt at the Retrieval of the Antient Celtic,
8vo. 1766.

Malcolme's (David) Essays on the Languages of the ancient Britains,
Americans, Scots, and Irish, 8vo. Edinb. 1738.

Vallancey's (Cha.) Grammar of the Iberno-Celtic, or Irish Language;
with an Essay on the Celtic Language, 8vo. Dublin, 1782.

1783.

Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Number XII. 8vo. Dublin,

Essay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language, with a Preface, proving Ireland to be the Thule of the Ancients, 8vo. Dublin, 1772.-Dutens' Collect. vol. 57.

Hickes (Geo.) de Utilitate Literaturæ Septentrionalis.-Thesaurus, vol. 1.
Wotton's (Wm.) View of Hickes's Archæological Treasure of the ancient
Northern Languages; with Notes by Shelton, 4to. 1735.

Henshall, (Sam.) The Saxon and English Languages reciprocally illus-
trative of each other; with a new mode of studying those Languages,
4to. 1798.

Free's (John) Essay towards an History of the English Tongue, Svo.

1749.

Lhuyd's (Ed.) Archæologia Britannica; an Account of the Languages, Histories, and Customs of the Original Inhabitants of Great Britain, fol. Oxon. 1707.

Camden's Remains concerning Britain: their Languages, Names, Surnames, Proverbs, &c. 8vo. 1674.

Weston's (Steph.) Specimen of the Conformity of the European Languages with the Oriental, particularly the English and Persian, 8vo.

1802.

Remains of Arabic in the Spanish and Portuguese Languages, with a Specimen of the Introduction to the Hitopadesa in three Languages, 8vo. 1810,

Whiter's (Walter) Universal Etymological Dictionary, with illustrations from various Languages and Dialects, 4to. 1800.

Etymologicon Universale; or, Universal Etymological Dictionary in which it is shewn that Consonants are alone to be regarded in discovering the affinities of Words, and that the Vowels are to be wholly rejected, 2 vol. 4to. Cambridge, 1811.

M. Abel-Rémusat, Programme du Cours de Langue et de Littérature
Chinoises et de Tartare-Mandchou, 8vo. Par. 1815.

3. Art of Writing.

Astle's (Tho.) Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as
Elementary; also some Account of the Origin and Progress of
Printing, 4to. 1784.

Astle on the Origin of Writing; second edition, with Additions, 4to.
1803.

Davy's Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing, 8vo. 1772.

Massey (Wm.) on the Origin and Progress of Letters; with an Account

of the most celebrated English Penmen and their Works, 8vo. 1763. H. Hugo, de prima Scribendi Origine, 8vo. Antv. 1617.

Dan. Eberh. Baringii Clavis Diplomatica, Specimina veterum Scripturarum tradens, Alphabeta varia, &c. accedit Bibliotheca Scriptorum Rei Diplomaticæ, 4to. Hanoveræ, 1754.

Gattereri Elementa Artis Diplomaticæ Universalis, 4to. Gotting. 1765. Waltheri Lexicon Diplomaticum, Abbreviationes Syllabarum et Vocum in Diplomatibus et Codicibus a Seculo VIII. ad XVI. fol. Gotting. 1756. + Mabillon de Re Diplomaticâ : accedunt commentarius de antiquis Regum Francorum Palatiis, veterum Scripturarum specimina, et Supplementum, 2 vol. fol. Paris, 1681-1704.

Carpentier, Alphabetum Tironianum, seu Notas Tironis explicandi Methodus, fol. Par. 1747.

Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique, où l'on examine les Fondemens de cet Art: on établit de Règles sur le Discernement des Titres, par deux Religieux Bénédictins, 6 vol. 4to. Par. 1750.

Dictionnaire Raisonné de Diplomatique : contenant les règles principales et essentielles pour servir à déchiffrer les anciens Titres, Diplomes et Monuments, ainsi qu'à justifier de leur date et de leur authenticité, 2 vol. 8vo. Par. 1774.

Justi Fontanini, Vindicia Antiquorum Diplomatum adversus Barth. Germonii disceptationem, 4to. Roma, 1705.

Artis Diplomaticæ primæ lineæ; in usum Auditorum duxit Jer. Jac. Oberlinus, 8vo. Argent. 1788.

Macdonald's (John) Treatise on Telegraphic Communication, in which the defects of the present Systern are obviated by the Introduction of a numerical portable Dictionary, 8vo. 1808.

Bp. Wilkins's Mercury: or the secret and swift Messenger, 12mo. 1641. -Works, 8vo.

Falconer's (John) Art of secret Information disclosed without a Key,

8vo. 1685.

Davy's (John) Essay on the Art of Decyphering, 4to. 1737.

L'Ozio superato nelle Cifre disciolte, e divise in varie Considerazione Politiche di Guerra, da Lod. Corticelli, 4to. Bolog, 1702.

Prosser's Scriptography: or Short Hand made easy, 8vo. 1806. Calligraphia Græca et Poecilographia Graca: a Work explaining and exemplifying the mode of forming the Greek Characters, their Connexions and Contractions, according to the method adopted by Dr. T. Young; written by John Hodgkin and engraved by H. Ashby,

4to. 1807.

Vergleichungs-Tafeln der Schriftarten verschiedener Volter, in denen vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Zeiten. Ausgefertiget von C. W. Büttner, 4to. Gotting. 1771.

P. M. Caneparius de Atramentis cujuscunque Generis, 4to. Lond. 1660.

4. History and Art of Printing.

Fournier, Manuel Typographique, utile aux Gens de Lettres, et à ceux qui exercent les différentes parties de l'Art de l'Imprimerie, 2 vol.

8vo. Par. 1764.

The Printer's Grammar, chiefly collected from Smith's edition, 8vo.

1787.

Luckombe's (Philip) History and Art of Printing, 8vo. 1771.

E. R. Mores's Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies, with J. Nichols's Appendix, in which is some account of W. and J. Ged's original Stereotype Printing,* 8vo. 1778.

Specimen of the several Sorts of Printing Types belonging to the University of Oxford, 8vo. 1786.

Specimen of Printing Types by W. Caslon, 8vo. 1764.

Walter (J.) on Logographic Printing, 8vo. 1789.-Dutens' Collect. vol. 9. Middleton (Conyers) on the Origin of Printing in England, 4to. 1735.Antiq. Tracts, vol. 1, and Works, vol. 5.

W. Bowyer and J. Nichols on the Origin of Printing; being the Substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation; and Mr. Meerman's Account of the Invention at Harleim, and its Progress to Mentz. With Appendixes on the first printed Greek Books; Hebrew Books; Polyglotts; Psalters, &c. 2d edit. 1776.

Ames's (Jos.) Typographical Antiquities: being an Historical Account of Printing in England, 4to. 1749.

History of Printing, enlarged by Herbert, 3 vol. 4to. 1785. Typographical Antiquities; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland: containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books printed by them; by Jos. Ames, and W. Herbert; and greatly enlarged with copious Notes and appropriate Engravings, by T. F. Dibdin, 3 vol. 4to. 1810.

Singer's (S. W.) Account of the Book printed at Oxford in 1468, under the title of Exposicio Sancti Jeronimi in Simbolo Apostolorum: in which is examined its claim to be considered the first Book printed in England, 1812.

Lemoine's (H.) History of Printing, particularly in England, 12mo. 1797. Bp. Fell and Dr. Wallis on the Right of Printing in the Universities.Gutch's Collect. Cur. vol. 1.

Maittaire, Annales Typographici ad Annum 1664 et Supplement. per Denis, 6 vol. 4to. Amst.

Marchand, Histoire de l'Origine et des prémiers Progrès de l'Imprimerie, 4to. Haye, 1740.

Audiffredi, Catalogus Historico-Criticus Romanarum Editionum Sæculi xv. 4to. Romx, 1783.

In the Library of the Royal Institution is preserved one of Ged's original Casts for a Sheet of the Common Prayer, 24to.

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