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Atwood's (Geo.) Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies, 8vo, 1784.

Galilæus's Dialogues concerning two New Sciences relating to Mechanics and Local Motion, with an Appendix concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies, by Weston, 4to. 1734.

Varignon, Nouvelle Méchanique ou Statique, 2 vol. 4to. Par. 1725.
Francoeur, Traité de Mécanique Elémentaire, 8vo. Par. 1801.
Euler (Leonh.) Mechanica, sive Motûs Scientia analytice exposita, 2 vol.
4to. Petrop. 1736.

Robins's Remarks on Euler's Treatise of Motion.-M. Tracts, vol. 2.
Jo. Alph. Borelli de Motu Animalium, 2 vol. 4to. Romæ, 1680.

de Vi Percussionis, et Motionibus Naturalibus à Gravitate pendentibus, et Motu Animalium, 2 vol. 4to. Amst. 1686. Hermanni (Jac.) Phoronomia; sive de Viribus et Motibus Corporum Solidorum et Fluidorum Libri II. 4to. Amst. 1716.

Wallisii Mechanica; sive Tractatus de Motu.-Opera, vol. 1.

de Gravitate et Gravitatione.-Opera, vol. 2.

Hugenii Machinæ quædam, et Varia circa Mechanicam.—Opera Var. τοί. 1.

Dissertatio de Causa Gravitatis.—Opera Rel. vol 2.

de Motu Corporum ex percussione.-Opera Rel. vol. 2.

de Vi Centrifuga.-Opera Rel. vol 2.

Leibnitii Theoria motus concreti.-Opera, vol. 2.

Theoria motus abstracti.-Opera, vol. 2.

Bernoulli, (Jean) Discours sur les Loix de la Communication du Mouvement.- Opera, vol. 3.

Robins's Remarks on Bernoulli sur les Loix du Mouvement.-M. Tracts, vol. 2.

Bernoullii (Jo.) Propositiones varia Mechanico-Dynamica.- Opera,

vol. 4.

Berkeley, (Episc.) de Motu; sive de Motûs principio et natura, et de causa communicationis Motuum.-Works, vol. 2.

De Maupertuis, Recherche des Loix du Mouvement, et du Repos. Oeuvres, tom. 4.

Prony, Méchanique Philosophique.—Journ. Polytechn. 3.

Relation des Travaux et des moyens Méchaniques qui ont été employés pour transporter un Rocher de trois millions pesant, destiné à servir de base à la Statue équestre de Pierre-le-Grand, par le Comte Marin Carburi, fol. Par. 1777.

Geissler, Beschreibung und Geschichte der neusten und vorzüglichsten Instrumente und Kunstwerke, 11 parts in 3 vol. 1792-1800.

Büsch, Praktische Darstellung der Bauwissenschaft, 8vo. Hamb. 1800. Eytelwein, Handbuch der Mechanik und der Hydraulik, 8vo. Berlin,

1801.

Linperch, Moole Boek van eenige Opstallen van Moolens, nevens hare Gronden, fol. Amst. 1727.

SECTION VI.

Mechanic Arts.

1. Arts and Trades.

Dictionnaire des Arts et Métiers Mécaniques, avec Planches, 16 tom. 4to. Paris, 1782.-Encycl. Méthod.

Roland de la Platiere, Dictionnaire des Manufactures, Arts et Métiers, 3 tom. 4to. Paris, 1785.—Encycl. Méthod.

Moxon's Mechanic Exercises; or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works applied to the Arts of Smithing, Carpentry, Turning, Bricklayery, 8vo.

1703.

Nicholson's Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant, 4to. 1797.

Parker's (Tho.) Essay on the Construction, Hanging, and Fastening of Gates, 8vo. with a Box of Specimens. 1804.

Essay on the Construction, Hanging, and Fastening of

a Turnpike-Gate, Turn-Wicket, &c. 8vo. 1816.

Horne's (Henry) Essays concerning Iron and Steel, 12mo. 1773.

De Reaumur, Mémoires sur l'Art de convertir le Fer Forgé en Acier, 4to. Par. 1722.

Prints of Specimens of Lace-Work, 4to.

Blancourt's Art of Glass; with the Method of Painting on Glass and Enameling, 8vo. 1699.

Kunkels Glaszmacherkunst, 4to. Nurnb. 1756.

Brownrigg's Art of making common Salt, 8vo. 1748.

Higgins (Bry.) on composing and applying Calcareous Cements, 8vo.

1780.

Shaw's (Peter) Essays for the Improvement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, by means of Chemistry, 8vo. 1761.

Accum's (Fred.) Practical Treatise on Gas-Light; exhibiting a Description of the Apparatus and Machinery for illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Coal-Gas, 8vo. 1815.

Dossie's Handmaid to the Arts, 2 vol. 8vo. 1764.

Smith's (Geo.) Laboratory; or, School of Arts, 2 vol. 8vo. 1799.
Berthollet's Elements of Dyeing, 2 vol. 8vo. 1791.

Art of Dying Wool, Silk, and Cotton, 8vo. 1789.

Bancroft's Experimental Researches concerning the Philosophy of permanent Colours, 8vo. 1794.

Dambourney, Recueil de Procédés et d'Expériences sur les Teintures solides, 8vo. Par. An. 2.

Boyle's Experimental History of Colours.-Works, vol. 1.

Home's (Francis) Experiments on Bleaching, 8vo. 1756.

W. Higgins's Essay on the Theory and Practice of Bleaching, 8vo. 1799. O'Reilly, Essai sur le Blanchiment, 8vo. 1801.

Art of Tanning and Currying Leather, 12mo. 1780.

2. Dictionaries of Arts and Sciences.

Encyclopédie Méthodique, ou par Ordre de Matières, 111 vol. & 24 vol. Planches, 4to.

Chambers's Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, by Rees, 5 vol. fol. 1786.

Rees's Cyclopædia; or, New Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 4to. 39 vol.-Plates, 6 vol.-1820.

Encyclopædia Britannica; a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, with the Supplement, 20 vol. 4to. Edinburgh, 1797.

Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica: with preliminary Dissertations by Dugald Stewart and Professor Playfair, 5 vol. 4to. Edinburgh, 1816.

Willich's Domestic Encyclopædia; or, Dictionary of Facts and Useful Knowledge, 4 vol. 8vo. 1802.

Dictionnaire raisonné Universel des Arts et Métiers, 5 vol. 8vo. Lyon. 1801.

3. Histories of Inventions and Discoveries.

Polydori Vergilii de Inventoribus Rerum Libri VIII.: Ejusdem, Adagia, fol. Basil. ap. Frobenium, 1521.

P. Vergilius et Alex. Sardus de Rerum Inventoribus, 12mo. Neomag.

1671.

Polydore Virgil's Works abridged; being a History of the Inventors, and original beginning of all Arts, Sciences, Rites and Ceremonies, by T. Langley, 12mo. 1659.

Lulli (Raymundi) Ars inventiva veritatis, fol. Valentia, 1500.

Agrippa (Hen. Corn.) de Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum, 4to. Antverpiæ, 1530.

Weckerus, (Jo. Jac.) De Secretis Libri XVII. ex variis Authoribus collecti, methodiceq; digesti, et aucti, 8vo. Basil, 1613.

Pancirolli (Guid.) Rerum Memorabilium jam olim Deperditarum: et contrà recens atque ingeniose Inventarum, Libri II. per Hen. Salmuth, 2 vol. 8vo. Amberga, 1599–1608.

Pancirollus's History of memorable Things Lost, and excellent Things Found, 2 vol. 12mo. 1715.

A Pleasant and Compendious History of the first Founders and Inventors of the greatest Arts and Mysteries in the World, 12mo. 1686. Beckman's History of Inventions and Discoveries, 4 vol. 8vo. 1797– Dupuis, Dictionnaire des Origines: ou Epoques des Inventions Utiles, des Découvertes Importantes, &c. 6 tom. 12mo. Par. 1777.

L. Dutens, Origine des Découvertes attribuées aux Modernes, 4to. Lond. 1796.

Inquiry into the Origin of the Discoveries attributed to the Moderns, 8vo. 1769.

Bailly, Lettres sur l'Origine des Sciences, et sur celle des Peuples de l'Asie, 8vo. Par. 1777.

De Maupertuis sur le Progrès des Sciences.-Oeuvres, tom. 2. Hume (D.) on the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences.-Essays, vol. 1.

De Goguet's Origin of Laws, Arts and Sciences; and their Progress among the most ancient Nations, 3 vol. 8vo. 1775.

Rollin's History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients, 3 vol. 8vo.

1768.

Miller's (Sam.) Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century; containing a Sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature, during that period, 3 vol. 8vo. 1805.

SECTION VII.

Fine Arts.

1. Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving.

Dictionnaire des Beaux-Arts, 2 tom. 4to. Paris, 1788.-Encycl. Méthod. Robson's (Wm.) Grammigraphia; or, the Grammar of Drawing, 4to.

1799.

Craig's (W. M.) Complete Instructor in Drawing, fol. 1806.

Pyne's (W. H.) Microcosm; or, Picturesque Delineation of Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c. in Groups of small Figures, fol.

Leonardo Da Vinci's Treatise on Painting, by J. F. Rigaud, with his Life, by J. S. Hawkins, 8vo. 1802.

Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Lat. and Eng. by Mason.-Reynolds's
Works, vol. 3.

Gerard De Lairesse's Art of Painting in all its Branches, and exempli-
fied by Remarks on the Paintings of the best Masters, 4to. 1778.
De Piles, Dissertation sur les Ouvrages des plus fameux Peintres, 12mo.
Par. 1681.

De Piles's Art of Painting, with the Lives of the most eminent Painters, 8vo. 1744.

Bardwell's (Tho.) Practice of Painting and Perspective made easy, 4to. 1756.

Muntz's Encaustic; or, Count Caylus's Method of Painting in the manner of the Ancients: with a sure and easy Method for fixing of Crayons, 8vo. 1760.

Russell's (John) Elements of Painting with Crayons, 4to. 1772.
Jackson on Engraving and Painting in Chiaro Oscuro, 4to. 1754.
Webb's (Dan.) Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting, and into the
Merits of the most celebrated Painters, 4to. 1802.

Turnbull's (Geo.) Treatise on ancient Painting, containing Observations on the Rise, Progress, and Decline of that Art amongst the Greeks and Romans; illustrated with Fifty Pieces of ancient Paintings, fol. large paper, 1740.

Richardson's (Jonath.) Works on Painting: containing, The Theory of Painting,-Essay on the Art of Criticism and the Science of a Connoisseur, 4to. 1792.

Account of some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, and

Pictures in Italy, 8vo. 1722.

Sir Joshua Reynolds's Works; containing his Discourses at the Royal Academy, and Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, with his Life, by E. Malone, 3 vol. 8vo. 1801.

Observations Historiques et Critiques sur les Erreurs des Peintres, dans la représentation des Sujets tirés de l'Histoire Sainte, 2 vol. 12mo.

Par. 1771.

Pilkington's (Matt.) Dictionary of Painters, improved by H. Fuseli,

4to. 1805.

A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, 12mo.

1810.

Vasari, Vite de Pittori, Scultori e Architetti, per Della Valle, 11 vol. 8vo. Siena, 1791.

Felibien, Entretiens sur les Vies et sur les Ouvrages des plus excellens Peintres, 2 vol. 4to. Par. 1685.

Recueil Historique de la Vie et des Ouvrages des plus célèbres Architectes, 4to. Par. 1687.

Le Vite de' piu celebri Architetti d'ogni Nazione e d'ogni Tempo; precedute da un Saggio sopra l'Architettura, 4to. Roma, 1768.

Descamps, La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois, avec des Portraits; et Voyage Pittoresque de la Flandre et du Brabant, 5 vol. 8vo. Par. 1753-1769.

Vita di Benvenuto Cellini, Orefice e Scultore Fiorentino, da lui medesimo scritta, 4to. Colonia, (Neapoli).

Life of Benvenuto Cellini, translated by T. Nugent, 2 vol. 8vo. 1771. Cellini, Trattati sopra l'Oreficeria, e la Scultura, 4to. Fir. 1731.

Winkelmann, Oeuvres de, vol. I. & II. contenant, Histoire de l'Art chez les Anciens, 4to, Paris.

Heyne, Lobschrift auf Winkelmann, 4to. Cassel, 1778.

Dallaway's (James) Anecdotes of the Arts in England; or comparative Remarks on Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, chiefly illustrated by Specimens at Oxford, 8vo. 1800.

Hoare's (Prince) Present State of the Arts of Design in England, 8vo. 1806.

Epochs of the Arts: including Hints on the Use and Progress of Painting and Sculpture in Great Britain, 8vo. 1813. Horace Walpole's (Earl of Orford) Anecdotes of Painting in England; and incidental Notes on other Arts, 5 vol. 8vo. 1782.-Works, vol. 3 and 4.

Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk.-Works, vol. 2.

Geo. Vertue and Horace Walpole's Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's Collection of Pictures, Statues, Bronzes, &c. 4to.

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