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ARCHITECTURE MECHANICS, &c.

FOR SALE BY

E. L. CAREY & A. HART,

CORNER OF CHESNUT AND FOURTH STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.

Adye's Pocket Gunner, with Additions, Geometrical and Algebraical Investigation by Egerton. of maxima and minima. Price $3 38.

Arcana of Science and Art, for 1831, or An Annual Register of Useful Inventions and Improvements, with several engravings. Price $2.

Bonnycastle's (John) Astronomy, 8vo, sheep. Price $4 50.

Bonnycastle's Algebra, 2 vols, 8vo. Price $8.

Bonnycastle's Geometry, 8vo, bds. Price

$3.50.

Bonnycastle's Trigonometry, 8vo, bds. Price $3 50.

Berthollet's Elements of the Art of Dyeing, with a description of the Art of Bleach. ing by oxymuriatic acid, 2d edit., trans. lated from the French, with notes and engravings, illustrative and supplementary, by Andrew Ure, M.D., 2 vols, 8vo, bds. Price $4.

Buchanan's (R.) Practical Essays on Mill Work and other Machinery, 2d edit., corrected, with Notes and additional Articles, containing new researches on various mechanical subjects, by Thomas Tredgold, 20 plates, 2 vols, 8vo, bds. Price $7 50. Barlow (Peter), An Essay on the Strength and Stress of Timber; founded upon Experiments performed at the Royal Military Academy, on specimens selected from the Royal Arsenal and his Majesty's DockYard at Woolwich; preceded by an Historical Review of former Theories and Experiments. Also an Appendix on the Strength of Iron and other Materials. With numerous tables and plates, 2d edit., corrected. Price $5.

Berzelius (J. J.) on the Use of the Blowpipe in Chemical Analysis, and in the examination of Minerals. Translated by J. G. Children, 8vo, bds. Price $4 25. Brown's Perspective Plates, 4to. Price

$15.

Brass Founder's, Brazier's, and Copper Smith's Manual. Price 50 cts. Burr's Treatise on Practical Surveying and Military Sketching. Price $3. Britton and Pugin's Architectural Illustrations of the Buildings of London, 144 plates. Price $22 50.

Creswell's Treatise on Geometry, 8vo, bds. Price $3 75.

Creswell's Elementary Treatise on the

Clater's (F.) Every Man his own Farrier; containing the causes, symptoms, and most approved methods of cure for every disease to which the horse is liable; with a Veterinary Pharmacopeia, 8vo. Price $3.

Chambers (Sir W.), A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, illustrated by sixty plates, engraved by Rooker, Foudrinier, Grignion, &c. The fourth edition, considerably augmented; with an Appendix of examples of the Doric and other orders, from the best remains of Grecian Architecture, which make nine new additional plates; and accompanied by a Dissertation on the State, Taste, and Principles of Grecian Architecture, with notes and observations on the original Work, 4to. Price $20.

Codrington on Light, 8vo. Price $3. Drummond's (Jas L.) First Steps to Botany, 12mo, boards. Price $2 50.

Dictionary of the Apparatus and Instruments employed in the various operations of Philosophical and Experimental Chemistry, with 17 4to copperplates, 8vo, boards. Price $4.

Dupin's (Charles) Mathematics Practically Applied to the Useful and Fine Arts. Adapted to the state of the Arts in England, by George Birkbeck, Esq., M.). President of the London Mechanic's Institution, &c. &c. 8vo. Price $3 50.

Dubois's Epitome of Lamarck's Conchology. Price $4 75.

of Motion, The Laws of Gravi

Emerson's (Wm.) Principles of Mechanics; explaining and demonstrating, The General Laws Pendulums, Centre of Gravity, &c. Strength and Stress of Timber, Hydrostatics, &c. Construction of Machines.

ty, Motion of descending Bodies, Projectiles,

Mechanic Powers, To which is now added an Appendix, containing Explanatory Notes, illustrations, and Observations. A new edition with important corrections, and eighty-three copperplates, bds. Price $4 50.

Forster's (Thos) Researches about Atmospheric Phenomena, 3d edition, 8vo, bds. Price $4.

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Works on Architecture, Mechanics, &c.

Ferguson's Lectures on Mechanics, new edition, by Partington, 8vo. Price $3 50. Farey on the Steam Engine, 4to, plates. Farraday's Chemical Manipulations, 8vo. Fairbairn's (Wm.) Remarks on Canal Navigation, illustrative of the advantage of the use of steam, as a moving power on Canals, with an Appendix, containing a number of experiments, 8vo, plates. Price $3.

Gregory's (O., LL.D.) Mathematics for Practical Men; being a common-place book of Principles, Theories, Rules, and Tables, in various departments of pure and mixed Mathematics, with their most useful Applications, especiaily to the pursuits of Surveyors, Architects, Mechanics, and Civil Engineers, 8vo, bds. Price $4.

Gray's (Thos) Observations on a general Iron Rail Way, or Land Steam Convey. · ance, 5th edit., 8vo, with plate. Price $3.

Gray's Operative Chemist, 8vo, bds. Gregory's Lectures on Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry, 35 plates, 2 vols, 12mo. Price $3 50.

· Guest on Steam Machinery.

Galloway's (E.) History of the Steam Engine, from its first invention to the present time, 8vo. Price $2 25.

Hornsby on Land Surveying.

Jonas's Gauging Improved; a new edition, very considerably improved, and brought down to the present improved Practice, by William Tate. Price $3 75. Jameson's Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, and Manufactures, 4to, plates. Price $15.

Keith's (Thos) Elements of Plane Geometry, 8vo, sheep. Price $4 50.

Keith's Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, 8vo, sheep. Price $5.

Lamarck's Conchology, by Crouch, 4to, coloured plates. Price $20.

Lamarck's Conchology, by Crouch, 4to, plain. Price $11.

Legh's (Peter) Music of the Eye; or Essays on the Principles of the Beauty and Perfection of Architecture, as founded on, and deduced from reason and analogy, and adapted to what may be traced of the An cient Theories of Taste, in the three first chapters of Vitruvius, 8vo, with plates. Price $10.

Little's (Rev. J.) Explanation of the Na ture and Properties of Logarithms, Com mon, Trigonometrical, and Logistical: de duced from the principles of vulgar numeral Arithmetic, 8vo. Price $2 75.

Leslie's Geometrical Analysis and Geo metry of Curve Lines. Price $4 50. Leslie's Philosophy of Arithmetic. Price $2.

Leslie's Geometry and Trigonometry. Price $3.

Leslie's Geometry, 8vo. Price $3 25.

Major's (Joshua) Treatise on the Insects most prevalent in Fruit Trees and Garden Produce, giving an account of the different states they pass through, the depredations they commit, and recipes for their destruction, including the recipes of various authors, with remarks on their utility. Price $3 50.

Murphy's (John) Treatise on the Art of Weaving, with Calculations and Tables connected with the Art of Weaving, illustrated by 15 engravings, containing nearly 260 different figures, 1 vol., 8vo. Price $6.

"It is written with much perspicuity; the different processes being at once concisely and clearly explained and well illustrated by a series of Engravings."-Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine.

"The illustrative plates contain nearly two hundred and fifty different figures, executed with great clearness and accuracy, and serve to render the work altogether one of unrivalled utility to our cloth manufacturers of every description.-London Mechanics' Magazine.

"Theory and Practice are in this work combined in a masterly manner, and we consider it as the most valuable gift ever yet given to the trade.-Scots Mechanics' Magazine.

Morrice's (Alex.) Practical Treatise on the Art of Brewing the various sorts of Malt Liquor, 7th edit., 8vo. Price $2 50.

Macartney's Lecture on the Uses of Anatomy and Physiology in various branches of knowledge, Evo. Price 75 cts.

Mackenzie's (Colin) One thousand Processes in Manufactures and Experiments in Chemistry, collected from the best modern authorities, British and foreign, with a view to promote the successful cultivation of the Useful Arts, 4th edition, 1 vol. 8vo, bds. Price $7 50.

M'Kernan's (H.) Treatise on Printing and Dyeing Silks, Shawls, and Garments, Bandannas, and Picce Goods, illustrated with plates and diagrams, 8vo. Price $5.

Nicholson (John), The Operative Mechanic and British Machinist, exhibiting the actual Construction and Practical Uses of all Machinery and Implements at present used in the Manufactories of Great Britain, with the real processes adopted in perfecting the Useful Arts and National Manufactures of every description. In one large 8vo volume, illustrated with copper plate engravings of several hundred subjects.

Nicholson (P.), The Principles of Architecture, containing the fundamental rules of the Art, in Geometry, Arithmetic, and Mensuration, with the application of those rules to Practice. Illustrated by 216 cop perplates. In 3 vols, 8vo, second edition Price $21.

Newton's (Sir Isaac) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, translated

Works on Architecture, Mechanics, &c.

into English by Andrew Motte, to which are added Newton's System of the World, &c., a new edition, revised and corrected by Wm Davis, 3 vols, 8vo. Price $14. Nicholson's (P.) Popular and Practical Treatise on Masonry and Stone-Cutting; containing the construction of Profiles of Arches, Hemispheric Niches, Hemispheric Domes, Cylindric Groins, Vertical Conic Vaults, Cylindro-Cylindric Arches, Right Arches, Oblique Arches, and Gothic Ceilings; esssential for the Engineer, Architect, Builder, and Stone-Mason, 8vo. Price $8.

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count of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-Way, by Henry Booth; the whole complete in 1 vol. 8vo. (American Edit.) Price $1 50.

Stuart (Robert), A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine, with 47 engravings. Price $2 25.

Stuart's (Robert) Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam Engines, and of their Inventors and Improvers, in 2 vols, with nearly 100 engravings. Price $4.

Seaward's (John) Observations on Rebuilding London Bridge, numerous plates, 8vo. Price $3 75.

Smeaton's (G. A.) Builder's Pocket Ma

Nicholson's Mechanic's Companion, or the Elements and Practice of Carpentry,nual, or Rules and Instructions in the Art Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, &c. &c. 8vo, with 40 plates. Price $2 50.

Nichols, Priestley, and Walker's New Map of the Inland Navigation, Canals, and Rail-Roads, with the Situations of the various Mineral Productions throughout Great Britain, from actual surveys; projected on the basis of the Trigonometrical Survey made by order of the Honourable the Board of Ordnance, by J. Walker, accompanied by a Book of Reference, compiled by Joseph Priestley, Esq., very handsomely coloured, and put up in a portable Price $40.

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Partington's (C. F.) Builder's Complete Guide; comprehending the Theory and Practice of various branches of Architecture, Bricklaying, Masonry, Carpentry, Joinery, Painting, Plumbing, &c., with plates, 8vo. Price $275.

Partington's (C. F.) Ship Builder's Complete Guide, comprehending the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture, 8vo, plates. Price $1.

Partington's (C. F.) Clock and Watch Maker's Guide, 8vo. Price 67 cts. Partington's (C. F.) Printer's Guide. Price 38 cts.

Partington's (C. F.) Engraver's Guide. Price 63 cts.

Partington's (C. F.) Coachmaker's and Wheelwright's Guide. Price 63 cts.

Partington's (C. F.) Mechanic's Library, or Book of Trades; comprehending a series of distinct Treatises and Practical Guides, 8vo. Price $5.

Partington's (C. F.) Manual of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, with numerous plates, 2 vols, 8vo. Price $6 75.

Ross on Steam Navigation, 4to. Robison's (John) System of Mechanical Philosophy, with Notes, by David Brewster, 4 vols, 8vo. Price $24.

Report of the Directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-Way, on the comparative merits of Locomotive and Fixed Engines, by James Walker: Observations on the comparative merits of Locomotive and Fixed Engines, as applied to RailWays, by Stephenson and Locke: An Ac

of Carpentry, Joinery, Masonry, and Bricklaying, plates. Price $1.

Smeaton's (John) Experimental Enquiry concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to turn Mills and other machines depending on a Circular Motion, Svo. Price $3 25.

Smeaton's (John) Reports, Estimates, and Treatises on Canals, Rivers, Harbours, Piers, Bridges, Draining, Embanking, Light-Houses, Machinery, Fire Engines, Mills, &c., with other Papers, drawn up in the course of his employment, 4 vols, 4to, with 74 plates, engraved by Lowry. Price $32 50.

Steele's Shipmaster's Assistant, 8vo, new edit. Price $8 25.

Smith's Panorama of Science and Art, 49 plates, 2 vols, 8vo. Price $10 50. Smith's Mechanic Arts, 106 engravings, 2 vols, 8vo. Price $10 50.

Smith's (Seth) Description of the Patent Metallic Lining and Damper for the Chimneys of Dwelling Houses and Buildings, illustrated by engravings, 8vo. Price $1 50.

Smith's (W. J.) Synopsis of the Origin and Progress of Architecture, to which is added a Dictionary of General Terms, 8vo, with plates. Price $4 25.

Tingry, (P. F.), The Painter and Varnisher's Guide; or a Treatise, both in Theory and Practice, on the Art of making and applying Varnishes. Price $3 25.

Tredgold, (Thomas), A Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and other Metals; intended for the Assistance of Engineers, Iron Masters, Architects, Millwrights, Founders, Smiths, and others engaged in the Construction of Machines, Buildings, &c.; containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples. Founded on a Series of New Experiments, with an extensive Table of the Properties of Materials. Illustrated by four plates and several wood cuts. New edition, improved and enlarged. Price $5.

Tredgold's (Thos) Principles of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings, Dwelling Houses, Manufactories, Hospi

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