like highly finished drawings, with studious accuracy, under the direc- 

 tion of several eminent Ornithologists, and most of the subjects have been com- 

 pared with living or preserved specimens in the Museums and Gardens of London. 

 Copies coloured in this manner would not have been published at less than fifty 

 guineas. Indeed the few copies of the old edition formerly coloured by Miss 

 Stone, similar in execution but inferior in accuracy to the present, have been sold 

 as high as from fifty to one hundred guineas at the sales of Col. Stanley, John 

 Dent, Esq. and Sir Mark Sykes. 



" No scientific works on Natural History ever obtained so much celebrity 

 as those of our venerable countryman Dr. Latham. His General History of 

 Birds, which is an enlargement of his Synopsis, is undoubtedly the most 



USEFUL AND VALUABLE WORK OF ITS CLASS, THAT HAS YET APPEARED 



as it contains exact scientific descriptions of every bird known at the time." 



Neville Wood. 



LEWIN'S (J. W.) NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF NEW 

 SOUTH WALES, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after 

 Nature, by John William LEWiN,late of Paramatta, New South Wales ; 

 third and greatly improved edition, with an Index of the Scientific Names 

 and Synonymes to the present time (1838), contributed by Mr. Gould, 

 Mr. Eyton, and other scientific gentlemen, folio, with 27 plates, beauti- 

 fully coloured, (published at 41 4s) neatly hf. bd. morocco, 21 2s 1838 



" Admirable figures, full of truth and nature ; accompanied by valuable ob- 

 servations on the habits and economy of the birds." — Swdinson. 



" According to the first ornithologists of the day, these plates are of permanent 

 value." — Wood. 



LINDLEY'S BRITISH FRUITS ; or Figures and Descriptions of the 

 most Important Varieties of Fruit Cultivated in Great Britain, 3 vols, 

 royal 8vo. containing 152 most beautifully coloured plates, chiefly by Mrs. 

 Withers, Artist to the Horticultural Society, (published at 10Z 10*) 

 elegantly hf. bd. green morocco extra, gilt edges, bibs . 1 841 



This is an exquisitely beautiful work. Every plate is like a highly finished 

 drawing, similar to those in the Horticultural Transactions. 



LINDLEY'S LADIES' BOTANY ; or a Familiar Introduction to the 

 Study of the Natural System of Botany, new edition, 12mo. with nume- 

 rous wood-cuts, (published at 12s) elegantly bound in cloth, with gilt back 

 and sides, 7s . . 1841 



the same, with the plates coloured, extra gilt cloth, \2s 



" The waut of a popular Introduction to the study of Botany on the improved 

 natural system has been completely removed by this volume of Dr. Lindley's. It 

 is accurate in its science, graceful in its style, and familiar in its language ; it en- 

 ables the student to take some common, or easily accessible plant, as the represen- 

 tative of each natural family, to examine its several parts, to compare them with the 

 plates, and learn their uses from the descriptions ; when he has done this with 

 care, and understood, and remembered what he has done, he will be a Botanist ; if 

 not a learned one, at least acquainted with all the fundamental facts of the science.'' 



Athenaum. 



H We are infinitely indebted to Professor Lindley for leading us so far in the 

 study of Botany in a plain and intelligible way. A multitude of plates, a clear 

 text, and a most judicious and agreeable arrangement, render this introduction to 

 perhaps the most innocent and delightful of all studies, truly acceptable." 



Literary Gazette. 



MANTELL'S FOSSILS OF THE SOUTH DOWNS, or ILLUSTRATIONS 

 of the GEOLOGY of SUSSEX, royal 4to. with 42 plates, (published at 

 31 3s) extra cloth bds. 2l2s . . 1822 



" My attention was first drawn to these remains by Mr.Mantell, who has illustrated 

 the subject in his excellent work on the Fossils of the South Downs." 



Parkinson's Organic Remains. 

 " For (he detailed history of the Organic Remains of the Wealden formation, 

 see Mr. Mantell's highly instructive and accurate volume on the Geology of Sussex." 



Buckland's Bridgeivater Treatise. 



