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Page 91 - PARKINSON (John). Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris ; or, A Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up...
Page 32 - NICHOLSON. A Manual of Zoology, for the use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Zoology. By HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, MD, D.Sc., FLS, FGS, Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen.
Page 16 - RUBAIYAT of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
Page 40 - A MANUAL OF THE INFUSORIA. Including a Description of the Flagellate, Ciliate, and Tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and Foreign, and an account of the Organization and Affinities of the Sponges.
Page 6 - Froissart (Sir John), Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV.; translated from the French editions, with variations and additions from many celebrated MSS.
Page 10 - The POLAR WORLD; a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe. By Dr.
Page 10 - The ORIGIN of CIVILISATION and the PRIMITIVE CONDITION of MAN ; Mental and Social Condition of Savages.
Page 39 - Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere Sf.
Page 44 - A Parallel in the manner of Plutarch, between a most celebrated man of Florence, and one, scarce ever heard of, in England...

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