List of the principal AUTHORS used in compiling the preceding Work.
BARROW's dictionary of arts and sciences, fol.
Berthoud sur l'art de conduire et de regler les pendules et les montres.
Calmet's dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols fol.
Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida, &c. 2 vols fol.
Chambers's dictionary of arts and sciences, with suppl. 4 vols folio.
Ditto, new edition publishing by Dr Rees.
Le grand Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, &c. 28 tom. folio.
Berkenhout's outlines of the natural history of Great Britain, 3 vols.
———— biographia literaria, 4to.
———— botanical lexicon.
Erskine's institutes of the law of Scotland, 2 vols fol.
Eustachii tabula anatomica, fol.
Albini tabula anatomica, fol.
Ferguson's lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, &c.
———— astronomy.
General dictionary, 10 vols folio.
Plinii historia naturalis, fol.
Hill's natural history of animals, vegetables, and fossils, 3 vols fol.
———— exotic botany, fol.
———— hortus Malabaricus, 4to.
———— vegetable system, 8 vols 4to.
Histoire de l'Académie des sciences & belles lettres, à Berlin, 3 vols preceding 1777.
Commentarii acad. scientiarum imper. Petropolit. 7 tom.
Journal de physique, par Rozier, 15 vols 4to preceding 1783.
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences, avec les mémoires, &c. à Paris, 10 vols, for different years preceding 1780.
Translation and abridgment of ditto from 1699 to 1720, 5 vols.
Memoirs of the imperial and royal academy at Brussels, 6 vols.
Dictionnaire des inventions utiles, &c. 2 vols.
Geoffroy's dissertation sur l'organe de l'ouïe de l'homme, des reptiles, & des poissons.
Abrege de l'histoire des voyages, &c. par M. de la Harpe, 20 vols.
De Luc's lettres physiques et morales sur l'histoire de la terre et de l'homme, 7 tom.
Acta eruditorum, 18 tom. 4to.
Pancirollus de rebus memorabilibus, 4to.
Ramsden's description of a machine for dividing mathematical instruments, 4to.
Juncker's conspéctus therapeia, 4to.
Forsteri characteres novor. generum plantarum insul. Mar. Austr. 4to.
Smith's optics, 2 vols 4to.
Feijsoothecrocritico universal, 12 tom 4to.
Chymie experimentale et raisonne, par Beaumé, 2 vols.
Poliant's Dictionnaire de physique.
Johnstoni historia naturalis.
Keill's astronomy.
Linnæi systema naturæ, 4 vols.
———— Aménitates academica, 7 vols
———— Philosophia botanica.
———— Genera plantarum, 2 vols.
———— Species plantarum, 2 vols.
———— Fundamenta botanica.
———— Institutions of entomology, by Curtis.
———— Mantissa plantarum.
———— Mantissa altera.
Macpherson's history of Great Britain, 2 vols 4to.
Edwards's natural history, 6 vols 4to.
Harwood's biographia classica, 2 vols.
Morgagni on the seats and causes of diseases, 3 vols 4to.
Boerhaave's chemistry, 2 vols 4to.
Hooke's philosophical experiments.
———— micographia, fol.
Construction d'un telescope de réflexion, &c. 4to.
Chandler's travels in Greece, 4to.
———— in Asia Minor, 4to.
Milne's botanical institutes, 4to.
———— botanical dictionary.
De Haen ratio medendi, 3 vols.
Sir Isaac Newton's mathematical principles of natural philosophy, 2 v.
———— lectiones optica, 4to.
———— opera omnia, cum commentariis, per Horsley, 5 vols 4to.
Pemberton's view of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy.
Maclaurin's account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries, 4to.
Parkinson's theatrum botanicum, fol.
Hudson's Flora Anglica, 2 tom.
Kircher's mundus subterraneus, 2 tom fol.
———— phonurgia nova, fol.
———— ars magna lucis et umbra, fol.
Philosophical transactions, abridged or at large, 65 vols 4to.
Cotes's hydrostatical lectures.
Dickson's agriculture, 2 vols.
Martin's essay on plantership.
Bielfield's elements of universal erudition, 3 vols.
Halleri elementa physiologia, 8 tom. 4to.
Earl of Pembroke on horsemanship.
Robertson's shift. of America, 2 v. 4to.
———— Scotland, 2 v.
———— Cha. V. 3 vols
Bushing's system of geography, 6 v. 4to.
Hutcheson's moral philosophy, 2 v.
Stone's mathematical dictionary.
Sale's Koran and life of Mahomet.
Rollin's ancient history, 10 vols.
———— history of the arts and sciences of the ancients, 3 vols.
Lavoisier's physical and chemical essays.
Gilbert de magnete.
Michell's treatise of artificial magnets.
Sir James Stewart's political economy, 3 vols 4to.
Priestley on light, vision, and colours, 2 vols 4to.
———— on air, 5 vols.
———— electricity, 2 vols.
Raii synopsis stirpium Britannicarum.
Rutherford's natural philosophy, 2 vols 4to.
Seba rerum naturalium thesaurus, fol.
Willoughby's ornithologia.
———— Ichthyographia.
Hamilton's elements of the theory and practice of midwifery.
Macbaime's dictionary of ancient geography.
Falconer's dictionary of the marine, 4to.
Sportsman's dictionary, or Gentleman's companion, 4to.
Bowyer and Nichols's origin of printing.
Swammerdam's book of nature, fol.
Broughton's dictionary of all religions, 2 vols fol.
Polygraphic dictionary, 2 vols.
Military instructions for officers detached in the field.
Hudson's flora Anglica, 2 vols.
Willis opera omnia, 4to.
Gregory's practical geometry.
Hampton's Polybius, 4 vols.
Littlebury's Herodotus, 2 vols.
Collection of voyages and travels, 7 vols.
Mawes's dictionary of gardening, 4to.
Smellie's midwifery, 3 vols.
Lettsom's naturalist's and traveller's companion.
Hamilton's (of Dublin) philosophical essays.
Cronstedt's mineralogy.
Pryce's ditto, folio.
Mills on cattle.
— on bees.
Jennings on medals.
History of earthquakes.
Lee's introduction to botany.
Rose's ditto.
Sloane's natural history of Jamaica, fol.
Wildman on bees, 4to.
Dr Mead's works.
Joubert's Dictionnaire des arts et métiers, 5 vols.
Goldsmith's natural history, 8 vols.
— hist. of England, 4 vols.
— Roman history, 2 vols.
Wharton's history of English poetry, 3 vols 4to.
Martin's philosophia Britannica, 3 v.
Leeuwenhoeck arcana naturæ, 2 tom. 4to.
Ward's mathematics.
Buffon's histoire naturelle, 14 tom. 4to
Lightfoot's flora Scotica, 2 vols.
Sir John Pringle's discourses.
Martin on comets, 4to.
Maupertuis on ditto.
Blount's fariery.
Bartlet's ditto.
Clark on the shoeing of horses.
Combrune on brewing.
Reddington on ditto.
Theoretic hints on ditto.
Complete maltster and brewer.
Goguet's origin of lws, arts, and sciences, 3 vols.
Ward's system of cratory, 2 vols.
Dr Black's MS. lectures on chemistry, 6 vols 4to.
— experiments on magnesia, &c.
Dr Cullen's MS. lectures on the theory of medicine, 4 vols 4to.
— on the practice of ditto, 6 vols 4to.
— First Lines, 4 vols.
— Synopsis nosologia, &c.
— on drowning.
Dr Monro's MS. lectures on anatomy and surgery.
Blackstone's commentaries, 4 vols.
Heister's surgery.
Dr Gregory's conspectus medicina theoretica, 2 vols.
Dr Blair's lectures on rhetoric and the belles lettres, 2 vols 4to.
Neumann's chemistry, 2 vols.
Raynal's history of the Indies, 5 vols.
Whitaker on the ancient Britons.
— history of Manchester, 2 v.
Dr Duncan's medical and philosophical commentaries, 8 vols.
— life of Dr Monro, (Harveian oration 1781.)
— life of Dr Macbride, (ditto 1784, MS.)
— life of Dr Whyte, (ditto 1783, MS.)
Dr Henry's history of Great Britain, 4 vols 4to.
Pennant's tour in Scotland 3 v. 4to.
— Wales, 2 vols 4to.
— British zoology, 4 vols.
— Indian zoology, fol.
— History of quadrupeds, 4to
— Synopsis of quadrupeds.
— Genera of birds.
Stillingfleet's tracts on natural history and botany.
Burney's history of music, 2 v. 4to.
Hawkins's ditto, 5 vols 4to.
Brydone's tour to Sicily and Malta, 2 vols.
Histoire des insectes, par Reaumur, 6 tom. 4to.
Cave's lives of the primitive fathers, fol.
Biographical dictionary, 12 vols.
Baker's biographia dramatica, 2 vols.
Walpole's anecdotes of painting, &c. 5 vols.
— royal and noble authors, 2 vols.
Universal history ancient and modern, 26 vols folio.
Raspe on German volcanoes.
London practice of physic.
Cavallo's electricity.
— on air, 4to.
Percival's philosophical essays, 3 vols.
Postlethwayte's dictionary of commerce, 2 vols folio.
Jacob's law ditto, fol.
Turpin's art of war, 2 vols 4to.
Macquer's dictionary of chemistry, 3 vols.
Preceptor, 2 vols.
Hooper's recreations, 4 vols.
Dossie's handmaid to the arts, 2 vols.
Berenger's horsemanship, 2 vols 4to.
Gallini on dancing, 2 vols.
Emerson's miscellanies.
— principles of mechanics, 4to.
Grassineau's musical dictionary.
Rousseau's ditto.
Holden on music, 4to.
Malcom on ditto, 4to.
Avison on musical composition.
Elements de musique theoretique et pratique, par D'Alembert.
Du Piles's art of painting.
Laisse's ditto, 4to.
Fresnoy's ditto.
Algarotti on ditto.
Owen's natural history of serpents, 4to.
Smith's Gaelic antiquities, 4to.
Blair's critical dissertation on Ossian.
Gibbon's history of Glasgow.
Maitland's history of Edinburgh, fol.
Arnot's history of Edinburgh, 4to.
Campbell's political survey of Great Britain, 2 vols 4to.
Bryant's mythology, 3 vols 4to.
Cramer's elements of assaying metals.
Hales's statical essays, 2 vols.
— description of ventilators.
Rowning's system of natural philosophy, 2 vols.
Monro on hospital diseases.
— on the dropsy.
Campbell's philosophy of rhetoric, 2 vols.
Abercrombie's martial achievements of the Scots nation, 2 vols fol.
Puiffendorf's introduction to the history of the principal states in Europe, 2 vols.
Bion's construction and uses of mathematical instruments, fol.
Malpighii opera, 2 tom. fol.
Nimmo's history of Stirlingshire.
Cooke's voyage round the world, 2 vols 4to.
Forster's account of the same voyage, 2 vols 4to.
Smith's inquiry into the wealth of nations, 2 vols 4to.
Granger's biographical hist. of England, 5 vols.
Millot's elements of general history, 5 vols.
— history of England, 2 vols.
History of Modern Europe, 2 vols.
Hamilton's observations on mount Vesuvius, Aetna, and other volcanoes.
Morogue's naval tactics, 4to.
Robins's mathematical tracts, 2 vols.
— principles of gunnery.
Monthly review, 69 vols.
Stockdale's manners, &c. of ancient nations, 2 vols.
Gronovii bibliotheca animalis atque lapidari, 4to.
Northouck's biographical and classical dictionary, 2 vols.
Russell on crayon painting.
Porney's heraldry.
Naval evolutions, 4to.
Motherby's medical dictionary, fol.
Lewis's philosophical commerce of arts, 4to.
Costard's history of astronomy, 4to.
Cowper on distilling.
Evelyn's Sylva, with plates, and notes by Dr Hunter, fol.
Georgical essays, 5 vols.
Dalrymple's memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols. 4to.
Lord Hailes's annals of Scotland, 2 vols. 4to.
Hooke's Roman history, 11 vols.
Hawkesworth's account of voyages in the southern hemisphere, 3 vols. 4to.
Ellis's account of Captain Cooke's last voyage.
Leland's history of Ireland, 3 vols. 4to.
Gibson's farriery.
Murray on ship-building, 4to.
Latham's synopsis of birds, 2 vols. 4to.
Bomare's Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, 9 vols.
Gooch's surgery, 3 vols.
Salmon's modern universal history, 3 vols. fol.
Hales doctrina sonorum, 4to.
Barbut's genera insectorum, 4to.
Gibbon's Roman history, 3 vols. 4to.
Watson's chemical essays, 3 vols.
Whithurst's inquiry into the original strata of the earth.
Cox's account of Russia, Siberia, &c. 4to.
Higgins's experiments concerning cements and stucco.
Crawford on heat.
Hopson on fire.
Leslie's philosophical inquiry into the causes of animal-heat.
McLurg's experiments on the bile.
Simmons on the gonorrhoea.
———— consumption.
———— account of the tænia or tape-worm.
———— anatomy and physiology.
Livy's Roman history, 8 vols.
Muller's fortification.
Swan's British architect, fol.
Jack's conic sections.
Jones's natural philosophy, 4to.
Langley's builder's assistant.
Lewis's dispensatory.
Hume's history of England, 8 vols.
———— essays, 2 vols.
Pontoppidan's history of Norway, folio.
Cullen's materia medica, 4to.
Biographia Britannica, 7 vols. fol.
Stuart's history of Scotland during the reign of Queen Mary, 2 vols. 4to.
———— history of the reformation in Scotland, 4to.
———— view of society in Europe, 4to.
Guthrie's history of Scotland, 10 vols.
Anderson's chronological deduction of commerce, &c. folio.
Shaw's travels into Barbary and the Levant, 4to.
Leonardo da Vinci on painting, 4to.
Dunn's atlas of the mundane system, fol.
Freind's history of physic, 2 vols.
Gesner's scriptores de re rustica, 2 tom. 4to.
Le Brun on the passions, folio.
———— hist. nat. animalium, folio.
Grew's anatomy of plants.
Collier's historical, geographical, genealogical, and poetical dictionary, 3 vols. folio.
Macpherson's history of Britain, 2 vols. 4to.
Keyser's travels, 4 vols.
Boyle's philosophical works, published by Birch, 6 vols. 4to.
Saxe's art of war, 4to.
Smith's harmonics.
Home on the croup.
———— bleaching.
———— principia medicæ.
Leake's medical instructions.
Monro's (Dr Alex.) whole works, 4to.
Smith's military dictionary, 4to.
Shuckford's connections of the sacred and profane history, 3 vols.
Prideaux's connections of the Old and New Testaments, 4 vols.
Dictionary of husbandry, folio.
Ranby's method of treating gunshot-wounds.
Blair's chronology, fol.
Sharpe's operations in surgery.
Atlas geographicus, 5 vols. 4to.
Gentleman's magazine, 54 vols.
Collectanea curiosa, 2 vols.
Montesquieu's spirit of laws, 2 vols.
Bell on the theory and management of ulcers.
————'s system of surgery, 2 vols.
Franklin's political, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces, 4to.
———— experiments in electricity, 4to.
Letters on Iceland; containing observations during the voyage of Banks, Solander, and Lind.
Ingenhouz's experiments upon vegetables.
Viscount Mahon's principles of electricity, 4to.
Biographical anecdotes of Bowyer and his learned friends, 4to.
Barrington's miscellanies, 4to.
Fothergill's works, by Elliot.
Ballard's memoirs of British ladies.
Brownrigg on the art of making common salt.
Le Dran's surgery.
Beauties of biography, 2 vols.
Kennet's Roman antiquities.
Potter's Grecian ditto.
Palladio's architecture, 2 vols. folio.
Smollett's history of Engl. 16 vols.
———— modern view of all nations, 8 vols.
Houghton's husbandry and trade improved, and published by Dr Bradley, 4 vols.
Harris's lexicon technicum, 2 vols. fol.
Derham's physico-theology.
Watts's logic.
Redi de insectis.
———— on vipers.
Short's history of the air, weather, seasons, meteors, &c. 2 vols.
Olbce and Torren's voyage to China and the East Indies, 2 vols.
Egede's description of Greenland.
Kalm's travels in North America, 2 vols.
Banier's mythology, 4 vols.
Ferber's travels in Italy.
———— Hungary.
Edinburgh medical essays, 6 vols.
———— phys. and literary essays, 3 vols.
Gellert's metallurgic chemistry.
Anderson's essays relating to rural affairs, 2 vols.
Du Halde's history of China, 4 vols.
Blond's military engineer.
Modern observations on gardening.
Withering's botanical arrangement of British vegetables, &c. 2 vols.
Mosheim's ecclesiastical hist. 5 vols.
Gordon's Tacitus, 4 vols.
Hurd's letters on chivalry and romance, &c. 3 vols.
Tour through Great Britain, 4 vols.
James's medicinal dictionary, 3 vols. fol.
Hughes's natural history of Barbadoes, fol.
Norden's travels, 2 vols. fol.
Mackenzie's lives of Scot's writers, 3 vols. fol.
Harris's collection of voyages, 2 vols. fol.
Dictionnaire economique, par Chomel, 4 vols. fol.
Lewis's experimental history of the materia medica, 4to.
Pott's chirurgical works, 4 vols.
Dr Whyte's works, 4to.
Bromfield's surgery, 2 vols.
Gibson's farrier's guide.
— on the diseases of horses.
Pringle on the diseases of the army.
Kimber's history of Scotland, England, and Ireland, 10 vols.
Blancard's lexicon medicum.
Mackenzie's history of health.
Brown's civil and natural history of Jamaica, fol.
Spence's polymetis, fol.
Shaw on distilling.
—'s chemical lectures.
De la Caille's elements of astronomy.
Wilson's navigation.
Patoun's ditto.
Sutton's new method of extracting the foul air out of ships.
Hewson's experimental inquiries into the properties of the blood.
— on the lymphatic system, 2 vols.
Lind on the health of seamen.
— putrid and marsh fever of Bengal.
— scurvy.
— diseases of hot climates.
Porterfield on the eye, 2 vols.
Macbride's essays on medical and philosophical subjects.
— theory and practice of medicine, 2 vols. 4to.
London medical observations, 5 vols.
— transactions, 2 vols.
Bracken's farriery improved, 2 vols.
Bacon's ditto, abridged by Shaw, 3 vols. 4to.
Ware's architecture, fol.
Vitruvius Britannicus, 2 vols. fol.
Desagulier's course of experimental philosophy, 2 vols. 4to.
Byron's voyage round the world.
Beccaria's treatise on electricity, 4to.
Select essays on husbandry.
Juan and Ulloa's voyages, 2 vols.
Churchill's collection of voyages and travels, 8 vols. fol.
Adair's history of the American Indians, 4to.
Biographia Gallica, 2 vols.
Forrest's voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas.
Grieve's history of Kamtchatka, 4to.
Hasselquist's voyage to the Levant.
Martin's description of the western islands of Scotland.
Swinburn's travels through Spain, 4to.
Beattie's essays, 2 vols. 4to.
— moral and critical dissertations, 4to.
Locke on the human understanding, 3 vols.
Phipps's voyage to the north pole, 4to.
Johnson's biographical prefaces, 4 v.
Gravesande's elements of natural philosophy, 2 vols. 4to.
Muschenbroek's elements of natural philosophy, 2 vols. 4to.
Beccaria on crimes and punishments.
Baxter's Matho, 2 vols.
Dillenius's history of mosses, corals, &c. 4to.
Forster's observations on physical geography, natural history, &c. 4to.
Hamilton's introduction to merchandise, 2 vols.
Pilkington's gentleman and connoisseur's dictionary of painters, 4to.
Entick's history and survey of London, 4to.
Harris's Hermes.
— treatises.
— philosophical arrangements.
Taylor's history of the life and death of Christ, with Cave's lives of the apostles, fol.
Art of painting in miniature.
Museum rusticum, 6 vols.
Miscellanea curiosa, 3 vols.
Maclaurin's algebra.
— fluxions.
Macquer's chemistry, 2 vols.
Miller's gardener's dictionary, fol.
Kames's elements of criticism, 2 vols.
— sketches of man, 2 vols. 4to.
— gentleman-farmer.
Bontius's account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies.
St Ives on the diseases of the eye.
Martin on heat and thermometers.
Nicolson's historical library, 2 vols. 4to.
Stanley's history of philosophy, fol.
Aneccotes des beaux arts, 2 vols.
Clare on fluids.
Kunckel's pyrotechnical discourses, 4to.
Geddes's complete bee-master.
Haigh's dyer's assistant.
Hellot on dyeing.
The whole art of dyeing, 3 parts.
Martin's magazine of arts and sciences, 13 vols.
Abbé Le Pluche's history of the heavens, 2 vols.
— Nature display'd, 7 vols.
Jackson on sympathy.
Smith on the wealth of nations, 2 vols.
Bonet's considerations sur les corps organisés, 2 tom.
— contemplation de la nature, 2 tom.
Whiston's theory of the earth.
Burnet's ditto, 2 vols.
Baker's nat. hist. of the polypus.
— microscope made easy.
— employment for the microscope.
Du Hamel's elements of agriculture, 2 vols.
Halleri bibliotheca botanica, 2 tom. 4to.
Diodorus Siculus, 2 tom. fol.
Bysshe's art of poetry, 2 vols.
Swan's Sydenham's works.
Plot's nat. hist. of Oxfordshire, fol.
Cambden's Britannia, by Gibbon, 2 vols. fol.
Noller's lectures on experimental philosophy.
Hill's cases of surgery.
Ray's physiological discourses.
Ray and Willoughby's philosophical letters.
Nicholson's introduction to natural philosophy, 3 vols.
Wilson's archeological dictionary.
Nieuwentyt's religious philosopher, 2 vols.
Blancourt's art of glass.
Neri de arte vitruaria.
Woodward's natural history of the earth, illustrated, enlarged, and defended, 2 vols.
Mudge on the catarrh.
The British chronologist, 3 vols.
Bossuet's universal history, 2 vols.
Innes's
Innes's critical essay on the ancient inhabitants of Scotland, 2 vols.
Politician's dictionary, 2 vols.
Shaw's travels into Barbary and the Levant, fol.
Varenus's geography, 2 vols.
Clark's demonstration of the being and attributes of God.
Carver's universal traveller, fol.
Melanges interessans et curieux, 10 tom.
Bergman opuscula.
Buchan's domestic medicine.
Columella's husbandry, &c. 4to.
Limborch's hist. of the inquisition.
Duncan's logic.
Gregory's comparative view of the faculties of man with those of the animal world.
Hill's Theophrastus on stones.
Dr Webber's systema medicinae praxeos, 2 tom.
— life of Dr Pitcairn, (Harveian oration 1782).