216 
Prints and Deferipiious of ibe Plants of 
: oor and of thofe cultivated in its Gar- 
dens: vol, ath. the “firfl part by D. 
ANTONIO JOSEPH CAVANILLES.. In* 
this book there are 60 plates, and 71 de- 
fcripti ons of plants, eight of Sen are 
new kinds, ‘The author has character- 
azed fome others, in order to illuftrate 
thofe genera of GAERTNER, named 
Septoipermt um, Metrofideros, and Epa- 
cris ; alfo that to which L’ HEeririer 
had given the name of Eucalyptus, 
and now augmented with fome new {pe- 
cies, brought from New Holland : others, 
in fine, cultivated i in the royal botanical 
arden, prove the rich coll ection of this 
eftablifhinent ; and fome obferved by the 
buthor in the kingdom of Valencia, en- 
rich the flora of this realm. 
~The fubferibers to the work intituled, 
€¢ Surgery, foreign, general, and particu- 
lar’ ‘Yhis isan original work of D, 
Juan FERNANDEZ DEL VALLE, pro- 
teffor of fur gery, and firft aflifiant in ana- 
atomy tothe royal hofpital at this court. 
‘The faculty, profeflors of every de- 
feription,: and parochial miniiters, will 
find in this work, the decifive refult of 
every cafe which common practice pre- 
fents ; a requifite not tobe found in the 
- Works of Zacchias Valenane or Sanchez, 
€ The fecret Life of King Philip II.” 
2 commonly attributedtothe ABBE DE ST. 
REAL, but by fome to the celebrated 
_ Spaniard, ANTONIO PEREZ, his fecre- 
tary of fate, iD ANTONIO VALLADA- 
RES is the > pub! ither. Tobe f round in the 
Ebay | of Furtado, fireet de Tas Carre- 
fas. 
 § A Treatife on warlike heroical Fert: 
tude,” (Eefer < compofed by the 
vara PaLtacios Ruzios; illuftrated 
with notes d obferya ations by the very 
revere cee ae Friar Francisco Mo- 
RALES, Jeroniinite sone of the royal 
monakery of the Efcuriel. ‘The Dr. ‘D. 
Juan Lopez de Paiacios Rubios was gne 
of thé moit gus s 
ane that ae we 
lece or SE: 
“oye 

ever produ in Fis we npeGen Hea. 
fure,’ and profound ju dgment, obtained 
Him, among other things, /a plaza ofthe 
fupreme. council of the Indies; and at 
the cortes celebrated in the city of Tor 
in the year 1.504, he was clected to com- 
pole the compendium ( Cer b book) of laws ; 
a from its execilency and equity, 
acquired th, firft rank dmong the other 
codes of the kingdo m. fe wrote va- 
rious works on the ciyi and canonical 
law, His fon afkin g him what fortitude 
bs ~ 
ee 
Stanifo Literature, copied from the Madrid Gazette, 
meant, he wrote the treatife here announ- 
céd ; wherein he exemplified (or demon- 
ftrated) his found doétrine, his erudition, 
aid his eriticifim, ‘The editor having had 
no other object in view, but to pay a 
compliment to the Prince of Peace, to 
whom this work is dedicated, has endea- 
voured to produce an impreffion as fimilar 
as poffible to the Saltuft, and has not . 
fpared any expence. / 
The following tranffations into Spanifh 
have alfo been announced : 
St. Real’s Treatife on Female Brant 
from the French. 
Cato’s Diftichs, with the Scholia of 
Erafinus, tranflated and enlarged, by D. 
LEON DE ARROYAL. - 
Tom Jones, from the Englith, by 
Fielding. 
Errors and Prejudices of the Spafmodic 
Syftem of Dr. Cullen, demonftrated by. 
J. Brown, with a Critical, and Apolo- 
getic Difcourfe in honour of medicine, 
and particularly the Hippocratic, by Dr, 
JoacHIM SERRANO MANZANO. 
Dr. Rowley’s Treatife on Diet, tran{- 
lated By the fame. 

A complete edition of the works of 
the late Sir William Jones, are an- 
nounced, by the authority of theexecutrix. 
The pofthumons works of the late Re; 
bert Burns, with an account of his life, 
by a gentleman of Liver pool, is an- 
nounced for publication, by fub{eription, 
at one guinea, for the benefit of his v Wis 
dow and ane 
FRomM THE ANNALES DE CHIMIE; 
Experiments on Platina, by the Count Muffin 
Pufchkin, Vice-Prefident of the Board of — 
i hae at Peterfourgn. 
On the faits “and precipitates of 
plotina, 
‘The brick- coloured falt obtained by 
the addition of muria te of ammonia to 4, 
iP Malu me plati 
Hace m ‘etna ge withe Bip without 
an intermediate fix fided prilm. he 
alcalis, with difficulty, caufe a precipi- 
tate from the aqueous ‘Yoiution i in form of 
a ¥ ellow powder, 
From 
