Retrofpect of Spanip Literature...Botany. 
B. Nolin; Geographer to the moft Chrif- 
tian King, prefented to his Cgtholic Ma- 
jelty, &c. This print reprefenis a very 
corre&t and intevefting view of the city 
and fortrefs of Mantua, and the Auftrian 
camp, during the ladt fege of the place, 
in confequence whereof it {urrendered to 
the Imperizl troops, under the orders of 
Field-marfhal Lieutenant Kray. 
‘¢ Tratado inftrugtivo y practico del 
arte de la tinrura y reglas, experimentadas 
y mMetodicas para tintar feda, lana, &c. 
con 12 eltampas, que demueltran las 
operaciones de eftas obras; un tomo en 
follo.” An initruétive and praétical 
Treatife on the Art of Dying, and me- 
thodical rules, deduced from Experience, 
for dying Silk, Wool, &c. with 12 plates, 
reprefenting the operations, defcribed in 
this work ; one Volume in folio. 
** Coleccion de ettampas de afuntos 
capricholos, inventadas y grabadas por 
D. FRancisco pe Goya, &c.” A 
Colleétion of Caricatures, invented and 
engraved by Francitco de Goya. The 
author of this interefting collection has 
very laudably devoted his talents for lu- 
dicrous and {atirical drawings, to ridicule 
fuch national prejudices, spurt ies, and 
extravagancies, as deferve the lafh of pub- 
lic centure. 
GENEALOGY AND ANTIQUITIES. 
“< Memoria de la Real Academia de la 
Hiftoria fobre la infcripcion hebrea de }a 
“Tglefia de Ntra Sra. del ranfiro de Ja 
Ciudad de Toledo, &c.”> A Memoir of 
the Royal H ftorical Academy, on the 
Hebrew Infeription of the Church of our 
Lady del tranfito, in the C.ty of Toledo. 
BIOGRAPHY. 
«© Refumen dela vida de Sta. CasiLDa, 
aboyada contra la enfermedad del Fluxo cde 
fangre, efterilidad, caidas, &c. con al- 
gunos de fus milagros, &c.”” A Sum- 
mary of the Life of St. Cafilda, the guar- 
éian Saint againit the bloody Flux, Ste- 
rility, Falls, &c. with fome of her Mi- 
racles, &c. 
“« Vidas de Santos para todos los dias 
del ano, &c.’*> The Lives of the Saints 
tor every Day of the Year, &c. 
“* Mugeres iluftres de Efpana: Obra 
original, por el P. F. ALFonzo AL- 
"WAREZ, &c,”’ Tomor. &c. The II- 
luftrious Women of Spain: an original 
Work, compofed by P. Fr. Alfonzo Al- 
warez, &c. Volume the Firft. The firft 
volume of this biographical work begins 
with the fabulous times, and contains the 
lives of thofe illuftrious Spanifh women, 
who flourifhed under the domination of 
f101 
e 
the Carthagenians and Romans, until th 
time of the Emperor Adrian. 
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY. 
“Tiempo de la vendimia, modo de 
hacerla con utilidad y economia, &c.” 
On the time of the Vintage ; on the means 
of making it in an economical and ufeful 
manner, &c. One Volume in 4to. ‘This 
ufeful work gives a very fatisfa€tory ac- 
count of the molt proper time and means 
of gathering the grapes, and of the moft 
profitable mellige of making and preferv- 
ing all forts.o ne. 
*¢L4& vendimia y agricultura de Jas 
Vinas, modo y tiempo de hacerla, con 
utilidad y economia con refpecto al vino 
blanco y tinto, &c. unstomo en 4% On 
the Vintage and Culture of the Vine, the 
molt proper method and time for the fame, 
its utility and economy in regard to white 
and red Wine, &c. One Volume in 4to. 
BOTANY. 
“‘ Fundamentos Bocranicos de Carlos 
Linneo, que en torma de Aforifmos ex- 
poner la teoria de Ja ciencia Botanica, 
traducidos por D. ANGEL GOMEZ Mar- 
TIN ¥ ORTEGA, &c.”” The Rudiments 
of Botany, of Charles Linnzeus, which ia 
the form of Apheorifms explain the theory 
of the Science of Botany ; tranflaied by D. 
A. G. Martin y Ortega. 
‘6 Flora Peruviana et Chileneis, five de- 
fcripiiones et icones plantarum Peeaviie 
arum, et Cele; ; Tomus 11. aute- 
Fibus Hippolyts i tuiz ct JOSEPHO Pa- 
VON, &c.”* This fecond volume of the . 
highly valuable Peruvian Flora, &c. 
contains 257 delcriptions of plants, and 
116 plates, repreienting 203 non-defeript 
plants, in their natural lize, fhape and ce- 
lours ; among thefe plants areg non-de- 
feript {pecies of the genus of Cinchona or 
true {pecies of the Peruvian bark-tree 
from the mountains of Peru, of. which 
the authors ftate to have received 6 draw- 
ings of as many new f{pecies, which are 
to be publifhed in the third volume. 
Among them is one {pecies, which by 
ineans of an incifon, gives a refinous, 
gummy fubftance, relembling tle colour 
of lac, which may be of very confiderable 
uie in medicine as well as dying. 
«« Cafimirt, Gomezii. Ortegae, Botan. 
Profefluris primarii, pharmacop. et medi- 
cii Regii honorarti, &c. Novarum et 
variarum plantaram horti Reg. Botan, 
Madrid, detcriptionum decades, cnm nen 
nullarum iconibus. This volume of Or- 
tega’s mafterly defcription ef the plants 
cultivated in the Royal botanical garden 
at Madrid, comprifes the 7th and 8th de- 
cades, aid contains a confiderable number 
of 
