Retrofpedt of German Literature...Arts and Manufattures. : 
engraving is executed with more correct- 
nefs and diligence than the drawing The 
text points out the different colours with 
which the fketches are to be painted, 
Natur Schanhetten Schfifeber Gegenden, 
&c. &c. von GUENTHER. 1798. Natu- 
ral Beauties of Profpetts in Saxony. With 
12 plates. The plates deferve more praife 
than the defcription, which is very affcct- 
ed, uninterefting, and tedious. 
Erfte Gruende der buergeriichen Baukunfi, 
&c. &c. von L. J. D. Suckow, &c. &c. 
1798. pp. 332. The firtt Rudiments of 
Civil Archite&ture. Wrath 35 plates. 
Fourth revifed and enlarged exition. The 
firft edition of this ufefui work appeared 
in the year 1751, and has not yet been 
fuperfeded by one of fuperior merits. It 
is written with fyftematic order, and in a 
plain and perfpicuous ftyle, which renders 
it as ufeful to the common buiider, as 1t is 
to the learned architeét. 
Aufwabl antiker Geme bide, &c. &c. von 
A. RODE. 1799. Select antique Paint- 
ings taken from the Work of Count Cay- 
lus, of which only a few Copies were dif- 
tributed, tozether with Explanations, by 
A. Rode. In three numbers, large folio; 
each number containing eight coloured 
plates. (Price 20 rixdollars the number.) 
Count Caylus accidentally found the fa- 
mous original collection of drawings from 
antique paintings, formerly in poffetfion of 
the cardinal-legate Camillo de Mafhm, 
in a nurfery, where it ferved for the amufe- 
ment of children. He purchafed it, and 
employed Mariette, a fkilful artift, to en- 
grave the outlines, which he afterwards 
caufed to be coloured by young ladies af- 
ter the model of the coloured drawings 
which Petro Sante and Francefco Bartoli 
formerly had made at Rome, and which 
were fhewn in the Vatican. Thus was 
formed the work which appeared at Paris 
in the year 1757, 1n large folio, with a 
preface by Caylus, and Mariette’s expla- 
nations of the 33 plates, under the title: 
Recueil des Peintures antiques trouvees a 
Rome. Wo more than 31 copies of this 
work being diftributed, it naturally became, 
immediately after its publication, a great 
Farity: 2,270 Liv. were paid for a fingle 
copy of it in the auction of Oulard. Ma- 
riette’s plates were found in the royal pal- 
lery after the death of Caylus. Molynet 
and Lamy caufed them to be repaired, 
and a hundred copies to be printed, every 
one of which fold for £.900: 22 more 
drawings were added to thofe of Caylus, 
and the whole work was publifhed in two. 
folios. This fecond work alfo became very 
f{carce in a fhort time, and amateurs paid 
569 
willingly 1,200 liv. fora copy. Mr. vom 
ERDMANNSDORP, of Deffau, deferves 
therefore the thanks of all lovers of the 
fine arts, for having accommodated the 
chalcographie fociety of that place with the 
loan of his tplendid copy of that fcarce 
work, and thus enabled them to publiff 
the three numbers in queftion. The en- 
gravings are execured 1n a mafterly man- 
ner by Mr. LANGENHOEFFEL, and the 
illuftrations are the productions of the per 
of Mr. Rode, who had already proved by 
his claffical tranflation of Witruvius, that 
he was perfeétly qualified for fuch an un-~ 
dertaking. ae 
Befchreibung der Churfuerflichen Anuken 
Gallerie in Dreflen, 8c. &c. von. J. Ge 
Lirsius. 1798. pp. 5263 4to. Defcrip- 
tion of the electoral Gallery of Antiquities 
at Drefden, executed partly after fome 
Papers of the late J. F. Wacker, formerly 
In{peétor of that Gallery. The friends of 
arts and antiquity have to congratulate 
themfelves upon the publication of this 
complete catalogue of the rich treafures of 
a colleétion which really deferved being 
rendered more known to the public than 
it has been hitherto. It is, indeed, aftonifh- 
ing, thar the highly valuable ftore of ex- 
cellent works of art with which the Dref- 
den gallery is adorned, has been negleéted 
fo long by a nation which has produced no 
inconfiderable number of refpectable ar- 
tifts'; and it is to be wifhed, for the fake 
of good tafte, that the compofition of a ca~ 
talogue of it had devolved upon a man_of 
a more refined and folid knowledge of the 
works of art, than Mr. Lipfius proves to 
poffefs; of which we could point out many 
inftances, were we not reftrained by want 
of room. 
COMMERCE. 
Pragifches Tafcbenwarrter-buch der 
Waarenkunde, &c.&c. von}. CHR. SCHE- 
DEL. 1798. Praétical Pocket-dictionary 
of Merchandize, or an accurate and com- 
plete Defcription of all Articles of Mer-~ 
chandize, occurring in the Courfe of Trade, 
particularly adapted to the Wants of the 
Trader, Fa€tor, and Broker. ‘This poc- 
ker-diétionary, as the author aflures us, Is 
no work of hafte, nor a mere extract from 
his larger diétionary of merchandize, con- 
taining a great variety of new articles, and 
being rendered more correét and gene- 
rally ufeful. Having compared the two 
works with each other, we think ourfelves 
bound in juftice to affirm the truth of this 
affertion, and can recommend it as a very 
ufeful affiftant to all people engaged in 
trade. 
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