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JOHN GRIGG,

No. 9, NORTH FOURTH STREET,

Has published the following valuable Law Books. BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, by | TOLLER ON THE LAW OF EXECU Christian, Archbold & Chitty, 2 vols. 8vo.

CHITTY ON CONTRACTS, a new and practical Treatise on the Law of Contracts, not under Seal, and upon the usual Defences to actions thereon; with corrections and additional references of recent English and American Decisions, by Francis I. Troubat, Esq., second American edition, in 1 vol. 8vo.

TORS AND ADMINISTRATORS, with notes and references to American authorities, by Ed. D. Ingraham, Esq., in 1 vol. 8vo.

The above work is not only absolutely neces sary for every gentleman of the Bar, but will be found a very valuable guide to every individual who is left an executor or administrator. The copious notes added to this edition by the American

All persons of business will greatly benefit them-editor, render it very valuable.
selves by an attentive perusal of this valuable work.
FONBLANQUE'S CELEBRATED TREA-
TISE ON EQUITY, a new edition, with
considerable additions, by A. Lausatt, Esq., in
2 vols. 8vo.

PETERS' CONDENSED REPORTS OF
CASES in the Supreme Court of the United
States, containing the whole Series of Decisions
of the Court from its organization to the com-
mencement of Peters's Reports, at January
Term, 1827. With copious Notes of Parallel
Cases in the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the
United States, in 6 vols. 8vo.

RUSSEL'S REPORTS OF CASES in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of Lord Chancellor Eldon. 1 vol. 8vo. CONDENSED ENGLISH CHANCERY. REPORTS.-The Reports which begin the series of Condensed English Chancery Reports, are those of Messrs. Simons and Stuart, commencing in 1821; and containing, in two volumes, the cases decided in the Vice-Chancellor's Court from that period to 1826, when Mr. Simons became the sole Reporter.

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The reported decisions in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, upon similar points, are also collected and digested in the work, as notes; and abstracts of those Cases, and also of the collateral decisions of the Supreme Court, are given, so that the Professional Gentleman and the Student, will be in possession of all the adjudicated Law of the courts of the United States, in an authoritative, condensed, and arranged form. PETERS' REPORTS.-Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the United States, by Richard Peters, Esq., Re-inclusive. porter of the Supreme Court of the United States, in 4 vols. royal 8vo.-These Reports are published annually, in July.

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SAUNDERS' REPORTS, in 3 vols. royal 8vo. The fourth American, from the fifth London edition. This edition contains one third more matter than any previous one.

The second volume of the Condensed English Chancery Reports contains the first and second Simons's Reports of Cases in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and the third and fourth Russell's Cases in the High Court of Chancery; thus bringing down the whole series of Decisions to 1828,

of the later Chancery Decisions in the High Court The subsequent volumes will contain the whole of Chancery and in the Vice-Chancellor's Court condensed; they will be published here, immediately after their appearance in England.

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The price, to subscribers, will be $5 per volume, handsomely bound in calf; to non-subscribers, $5 50 per volume.

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PUBLISHED BY J. GRIGG,

NO. 9, NORTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA,

And for sale by the principal Booksellers in the United States.

THE PHARMACOPOEIA of the United States, revised edition, by authority of the National Medical Convention, which met in Washington, in January, 1830, in 1 vol. 8vo. All persons ordering this work will please say "the Philadelphia edition of 1831."

VELPEAU'S ELEMENTARY

TREA TISE ON THE ART OF MIDWIFERY, or the principles of Tokology, and Embryology, in 1 vol. 8vo. Translated from the French, by Charles D. Meigs, M. D. &c.

This is a new work, and is said to be a very valuable one, by many who are eminently qualified to judge.

COOPER'S FIRST LINES OF THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY: designed as an introduction for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners. By Samuel Cooper, M. D. With Notes by Alexander H. Stevens, M. D., and additional Notes and an Appendix, by Dr. S. M'Clellan. Third American, from the last London edition, revised and corrected. With several new plates and wood cuts, in 2 vols. 8vo.

This work is highly esteemed by all the distinguished of the medical profession; and, in many of our Medical Schools, is used as a Text Book. EBERLE'S PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, in 2 vols. 8vo. By John Eberle, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Obstetrics in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. This is one of the most valuable works on the Practice of Medicine, that has ever issued from the American Press.

A TREATISE ON THE MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS, in 2 vols. Third edition, improved and greatly enlarged. By John Eberle, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Obstetrics in the Jefferson Medical College; Member of the American Philosophical Society, Corresponding Member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, &c.

A TREATISE ON THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DISEASES OF THE BONES AND JOINTS, in 1 vol. 8vo. By S. D. Gross, M. D.

cine of the Faculty of Paris; late Surgeon to the 3d Regiment of Artillery, &c. &c. By S. D. Gross, M. D.

MANUAL OF PRACTICAL OBSTETRICS: arranged so as to afford a concise and accurate description of the Management of Preternatural Labours; preceded by an account of the Mechanism of Natural Labour. From the French of Julius Hutin, Doctor of Medicine of the Faculty of Paris, Professor of Obstetrics, and of the Diseases of Women and Children, &c. &c. &c. By S. D. Gross, M. D. ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY: including the recent discoveries and doctrines of the Science. By Edward Turner, M. D. Professor in the London University; F. R. S. E. &c. &e.With important corrections and additions, by Franklin Bache, M. D. Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin Institute.

HUFELAND ON SCROFULOUS DISEASES, 1 vol. 12mo.

BICHAT ON PATHOLOGY, in 1 vol. 8vo. RUSH ON THE MIND, new fine edition, 1

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Moral Instructor.

Arithmetical Tables.

Arithmetic in Dollars and Cents.
Key to ditto, for Teachers.

Geography and Atlas, improved.
Grimshaw's History of the United States.
History of England.
History of Greece.

History of Rome, with Questions and
Keys to each.
Ladies' Lexicon.

Conversations on Chemistry.

on Natural Philosophy.

MANUAL OF GENERAL ANATOMY:
containing a concise description of the Elemen-Grigg's American School Atlas.
Walker's Dictionaries.
tary Tissues of the Human Body. From the
French of A. L. Bayle and H. Hollard. By
S. D. Gross, M. D.

Murray's Exercises and Key, 12mo edition.
Horace Delphini.
Virgil Delphini.

Clark's Cæsar Delphini.

MANUAL OF THE ELEMENTS OF
OPERATIVE SURGERY: arranged so as
to afford a concise and accurate description of
the present state of the Science in Paris. From
the French of A. Tavernier, Doctor of Medi-Life of General Washington, &c. &c.

Hutchinson's Zenophon, with Notes and a Latin
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Life of General Marion.

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BIGLAND'S NATURAL HISTORY OF
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BIGLAND'S NATURAL HISTORY OF
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ticularly to illustrate the Universal Geography by M. Malte-Brun.

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CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY, in which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illustrated by Experiments and Engravings on wood. From the last London edition. In which all the late Discoveries and Improvements are brought up to the present time, by Dr. Thomas P. Jones.

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A DICTIONARY OF SELECT AND POPULAR QUOTATIONS, which are in daily use; taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian languages: together with a copious collection of Law-maxims and Lawterms; translated into English, with Illustrations historical and idiomatic. Sixth American edition, corrected, with additions. 1 vol. 12mo. MALTE-BRUN'S NEW AND ELEGANT In preparing this Sixth edition for the press, 4to ATLAS, exhibiting the Five Great Divi- care has been taken to give the work a thorough sions of the Globe, Europe, Asia, Africa, me- revision, to correct some errors which had before rica, and Oceanica, with their several Empires, escaped notice, and to insert many additional QuoKingdoms, States, Territories, and other Sub- tations, Law-maxims, and Law-terms.-In this divisions, corrected to the present time; and state it is offered to the public, in the stereotype containing forty Maps, drawn and engraved par- form.

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