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Bibliotheca Britannica; or, a general index to British and foreign literature / By Robert Watt.

  • Robert Watt
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1824
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    d it ACHE placing on the Throne King William III. was the Natural Fruit and Effect of the Original Constitution, &c. Lond. 1727, 1729, 1741, fol. 16s.—Free Parliaments, or an Argument on their Constitution, proving some of their powers to be independent. To which is added, an Appendix of Original Letters and Papers, which passed between the Court of Hano- ver and a Gentleman at London, touching the Right of the Duke of Cambridge to reside in England and sit in Parliament. Lond. 1731, 8vo. 3s.—Jurisdiction of the Chancery, asa Court of Equity, researched, and the traditional obscurity of its commencement cleared, with a short Essay on the Judicature of the Lords in Parliament, upon Appeals from Courts of Equity. 3d Edit. 1736, 8vo. (anon.) but said to be written by him. ACHESONE, James.—The Military Garden, or Instruction for Young Soldiers. Edin. 1629, 4to. ACHILLES, Tarius, see TATIUS, Acuituzs. ACHILLINI, Atexanoner, a native of Bologna, born 1463; died 1512. He was a Philosopher and Physician, and professed both these sciences with great reputation.—His Philosophical Works were printed at Venice, 1508, and reprinted with considerable additions, 1545, 1551, and 1568.— Annota- tiones Anatomice. Bonon, 1520, 4toe and Venice, 1521, 4to.—In Mun- dini Anatomiam Annotationes, printed with Katham’s Fasciculus Medicine, Ven. 1522, fol— De Subjecto Medicine, cum Annotationibus Pamphili Montii. Venice, 1568.—De Chiromantiz Principiis et Physiognomiz. Fol. without place or date. Reprinted Bonon, 1504, fol—De Universalibus. Bonon, 1501, fol.—De Subjecto Chiromantie et Physiognomiz. Bonon, 1503, fol. Pavia, 1515, fol.— De Distinctionibus Aureum Opusculum, cum Annot. Francisci Mariani. Bonon, 1518, fol.—Fragmentorum Fractiones Physicales, cum Annot. Francisci Mariani, Bonon, 1518, fol. ACHILLINI, Craupr, grandson to John Philotheus, was also a Poet, born at Bologna, 1574; died, 1640—His Poems have been printed at Bologna, 1632, 4to. and afterwards reprinted, with some prose works, under the title, Rime e Prose. Venice, 1651, 12mo.—He likewise published, in Latin, Decas Epistolarum ad Jacobum Ganfridum. Parma, 1635, 4to. ACHILLINI, Joun Puitoruerus, younger brother to Alexander, was born at Bologna, 1466; died 1558. He is most celebrated as a Poet, though very much skilled in other branches of literature. He published— a scientific and moral Poem, entitled, I] Viridario, Bologna, 4to. being eulogiums on most of his learned cotemporaries.—I1 Fedele; also in he- roics. These two works never having been reprinted, are now very scarce. ACHMED, Arazstapa.—Vite et Rerum Gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamerlanes dicitur, Historia Arabice, edente Jacobo Golio. Lug. Bat. 16356, 4to. ACHMED, Arvesri11.—Poems, containing the Plaints, Consolations, and Delights, of Achmed Ardebeili, a Persian Exile, with Notes by C. Fox. Lond. 1797, 8vo. ACHMET, an Arabian, who is supposed to have lived in the fourth cen- tury, wrote a book—On the Interpretation of Dreams, according to the Doctrine of the Indians, the Persians, and the Egyptians. It has been translated into Greek and. Latin, ent. Apotelesmata. Lat. Jo. Leunclavio Interpr. Franc. 1577, 8vo. Also, in Greek and Latin, and printed along with Artemidorus on Dreams and Chiromancy, by M. Rigault, in Paris, 1603, 4to. ACHMET, Emperor of the Turks.—-Letter Denouncing Warre against the King of Poland. Lond. 1621, 4to. ACHRELIUS, Danier, author of two Works entit.—Contempla> tionum Mundi, libriiii. Aboz, 1682, 4to.—Cetographia, sive Dissertatio His- torico- Physica de Cetis, illustrated with 6 plates, 1683, 8vo. ACIDALIUS, Vatens, a ysung man of great erudition, whom Baillet has enrolled amongst his Enfans Celebres, was born at Wistock, in the march of Brandenburgh, 1567; died 1595. He published— A nimadver- siones in Quintum Curtium, 8vo. Frank. 1594. Adopted in tlie edition at Frank. 1597, and in that by Spakenburgh, Leyden, 1724, 4to.— Notes on Tacitus, printed with that Author. Par. 1608, fol—His Letters pub- lished at Hanau, 1606, 8vo.—Divinationes et Interpretes in Plauti Co- meedias. Frank. ' 1607, 8vo—Note ad Panegyricos Veteres. Frank. 1597, 8vo. ACKELEYE, Gasrirr, author of a rare work —Exercitationes in C. Tacitum de Moribus Germanorum Veterum. Sore,.1646, 8vo. ACKERMAN, Joun Curistian Gorriizs, a Physician and Medical Writer of great reputation in Germany, and Professor of Medicine at Alt- dorf, in Franconia, was born i756; died 1801.—Regimen Sanitatis Sa- lerni, sive Schole Salernitatis, de Conservanda bona Valitudine .Precepta. Lond. 1790, S8vo. The editor has followed that text which Ernoldus de Villa Nova has adopted in his Commentary, though he has rejected those verses which seemed to him interpolations. ——His principal works are, Insti- tutiones Historia Medicine. Nuremberg, 1792, 8vo.—A Manual of Mi- litary Medicines. Leips. 1794-5, 2 vols. 8vo. in German. ACKERMAN, J. F. M. D. Member of the Faculty at Mentz.— Uber de Kretinen, &c. i. e. Concerning the Cretans, or an Enquiry into plates. _ Gotha, 1791, 8vo. ACKERMAN, Bookseller, London.—Designs for Furniture. Lond. 1791, 4to, 21s,——Microcosm of London. Lond. 1810, 3 vols. 4to. £13, 13s, a very splendid work, containing an immense number of fine plates, by emi- nent artists.—History of the University and City of Oxford, 100 plates. 2 vols. 4to. £16, 16s.—History of the University and City of Cambridge, 100 plates.—-History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s, ACRO At Westminster, 100 plates, 2 vols. 4to, £15, 15s.— Repository of Arts, Manu- factures, &c. published monthly. ACKIN, Josrru.—Mysteries of the Counterfeiting of the Coin fully 1696, 4to. ‘ ACKLAND, James.—True Patriotism; dedicated in a Letter to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. 1818, 8vo, Is, ACKLAND, Rey. J.—An Answer to a Pamphlet published by Edward King, Esq. in which he attempts to prove the Public Utility of the National Debt; a Confutation of that pernicious Doctrine, and a true Statement of the real Cause of the present high Price of Provisions. 1796, 8vo, 1s. 6d. ACKLAND, Tuomas Girnank, of St. John’s College, Cambridge.— Miscellaneous Poems. Lond. 1812, 8vo. 10s. 6d.—A Sermon preached at Christ Church, Surrey. Lond. 1813, 4to.—Religion and Loyalty recom- ACKWORTH, Groner, LL. D. An English Divine and Civilian, during the reign of Queen Mary, but of whom nothing is known.—Tgoa<- youtvov, libri duo de Visibili Rom’ anarchia contra Nic. Sanderi Monar- chiam. Lond. 1573, fol. 1622, 4to.—Oratio Encomiastica jn Restitu- tione Buceri et Fagii V. Hist. Buceri. Argent. 1562, 8vo.—The Preface to the Book ii. of Bucer’s Works. Basil. 1577, fol. ACOLUTHUS, Awnrew, a learned Orientalist and Professor of Divi- nity at Breslaw, was born at Bernstadt, 1654; died 1704. His most ce- lebrated work is—A Specimen of some Chapters of a Polyglot Koran, un- Arabici, Persici, Turcici, et Latini. Berlin, 1701, fol——-Obadias Armenus et Latinus, cum Annotationibus. Leips. 1680, 4to. The Armenian Types used in this work were cast at his own expense—De Aquis Amaris Male- dictiones inferentibus, vulgo dictis Zelotypia. Leips. 1682, 4to. ACONTIUS, or Aconzio, James, a Divine, Philosopher, and Civilian, was born at Trent; died 1566. He wrote—De Stratagematibus Satane in Religionis Negotio, per Superstitionem, Errorem, Heresim, Odium, tola. Basle, 1565, 8vo. Oxon. 1631, 8vo. Lond. 1648, 4to. Ox. 1650, o12mo. A very popular work, and translated into almost every European Language. ‘The Trench translation is said to be preferable to the original. —De Methodo, sive recta Investigandarum, Tradendarumque Artium, ac Scientiarum Ratione libellus. Basle, 1558, 8vo, often reprinted.— Ars . Muniendorum Oppidorum, in Latin and Italian. Genev. 1585. ACOSTA, Cunrisroyat, author of the following works on Materia Me- dica, entitled—Tractado de las Drogas, y Medicinas de las {ndias Orien- tales, con sus Plantas. Burgos, 1578, 4to.—Aromatum et Medicamento- factus, in epitomen contractus, et notisillustratus, Opera Car. Clusii. Ant des Drogues et Medicamens, qui naissent aux Indes, traduite a Espagnol en Latin, abregé et illustré de Notes, par Charles de l Ecluse, et de nouveau mis en Francois, par Ant. Colins. a avec P Histoire des Drogues de Garcie du Jardin. Pragg. oe pees ACOSTA, Josrru v’, a celebrated Spanish Author, was born at Medin del Campo, about 1540; died i600.—'The Natural and Moral History of the East and West Indies, intreating of the Remarkable Things of Heaven, of the Elements, Metals, Plants, and Beasts; which are proper to that gq Country ; together with the Ceremonies, Laws, Governments, and Wars. Translated from the Spanish by E. G. (perhaps Edward Grimestone.) Lond. 1604, 4to. 1684, 4to. The original ‘editions of this work were printed at Seville, 1590, 4to. Barcelona, 1591, S8vo. A corrected edition, Madrid, 1608, 4to. and 1610. A work in great estimation, and has also been trans- lated into French, Flemish, Italian, and German.—De Natura Novi Orbis, libriduo. Salam, 1589, 1593, 8vo. Translated by the author into Spanish, and added to the preceding.—De Promulgatione ivangelii apud Barbaros. Salam. 1588, 8vo. Cologne, 1596.—De Christo Reyelato, libri noyem. Rome, 1590, 4to. Lyons, 1591, 8vo.—Conciones. Salam. 1596, 5 vols. r 4to. Often reprinted.— Histoire Naturelle et Moralle des Indes, tant Orien- talles qu’ Occidentalles, traduite in Frangoise de Castillan, par Robert Reg- nault Cauxois. Paris, 1606, 8yo. ‘ ACOSTA, Nonivs.— Author of De Privilegiis ee eS Geneva, 1670, fol. * ¥ ACREL, Otaus, a very eminent Swedis Surgeon and Physician, was - following are the principal—A Treatise on Fresh Woands. Stockholm 1745.—Observations in Surgery, 1750.—Dissertation on the Operation fo $s oe Cataract, 1766—and a Discourse on Reforms in Surgical Operations, 1767. ACRES, Josrrn, Vicar of Blewberry, Berks.—The true Method of propagating Religion and Loyalty, a Sermon on Psalm Ixxviii. 4, Lond. 1714, 1715, 8vo,—The Accession, Glad Tidings to Great Britain, the Accession, on Psalm cxi. 4. 1715, 8vo.—Two on Proy. xiv. 54. 1715, 8vo.—On Prov. xxxi. 13. 1715, Svo—On Matthew xxy. 35, 36. 1728, 8vo. / ACRON, or Acro Hetenius, the name of an ancient Scholiast on t Horace, who flourished in the 7th century. His work is entitled—Ex- positio in Horatii Flacci Opera. First Edit. According to Dibdin, without date, place, or name of printer. It is printed along with Ho, .
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