De Renunciatione Hæreditatum Filiorum illuftrium.

De Litis conteftatione commoda plerumque, incommoda nunquam.

HAMBURG.

Mr. Hubner, Rector of our School, and Author of several Genealogical, Hiftorical,andGeographical Books, died on the 21st of May. M. Staphorst, Minifter of St. John's Church died on the 7th of July. He has left Materials to complete his Hiftory of the City of Hamburg.

UTRECHT.

Broedelet is printing by Subfcription Thefaurus Juris Romani. Continens rariora meliorum Interpretum Opufcula, in quibus Fus Romanum emendatur, explicatur, illuftratur. Itemque Clafficis aliifque Au&toribus baud raro lumen accenditur. Cum Præfatione Everardi Ottonis J. C. & Antecefforis. Tom. IV. Editio nova. In folio. The Price to the Subfcribers is 25 Florins for the fmall, and 52 for the large Paper.

Anecdotes ou Memoires Secrets fur la Conftitution Unigenitus. Seconde Edit. The Editor pretends that thefe Memoirs which go no farther than 1715, were written by order of the late Archbishop of Paris; and promises a fecond Part to the Year 1718, when that Prelate publifh'd his Appeal against the Conftitution.

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PROPOSALS for Printing by Subfcription Monfieur WINSLOW's ANATOMY in English; with Additions, by GEORGE DOUGLAS, M. D.

WHEN I firft undertook the Tranflation of Monfieur Winslow's Anatomical Expofition of the Structure of the Humane Body, I little thought of defiring, and much lefs of publickly propofing a Subfcription. The vast Reputa tion in Anatomy, which that Author has juftly acquired, the Compleatnefs and Accuracy of his Obfervations, the natural and intelligible Order in which they are delivered, the many valuable Discoveries contained in them; and, in a word, the Excellency of this Work in every respect, above all the Systems of Anatomy that have hitherto appeared in any Language, left me no room to doubt but that a beautiful and correct Edition of it in English, would be well received by all Philofophical and Phyfical Readers of thefe Nations, who either are not throughly acquainted with the French Tongue, or cannot be readily fupply'd with the Original, after the fmall Number of Copies imported by our Bookfellers, has been fold off. After I had made a confiderable Progrefs in the Translation, several of my Friends were fo good as to put me in mind, that tho' I had taken all the ufual Steps to fecure to myself the Property of it, by repeated publick Advertisements, &c. and tho there was no Probability that any other good Tranflation, whether made in Paris or here in London, could appear before mine yet the great Character which the Original defervedly bears,

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bears, may have tempted fome other Perfon to fet about one, in hopes either of getting the ftart of me in the Publication, or at least that there would be a fufficient Demand for both. A fuch Tricks, however mean and unworthy of a Man of common Honefty, and much more of a Man of Learning, have been often play'd in this City, there being no Law of the Land that I can hear of, to prevent or punish them, I was of opinion, that in order to fecure to myself the whole Fruit of an Undertaking which has already coft me a confiderable Sum of Money and a great deal of Time and Labour, and must still cost me much more; the only farther Expedient I could have recourse to, was to take in a Subfcription. This is what I now take the Liberty to propofe on the following Conditions.

I. The Book will be in two Volumes Quarto, containing about one hundred and thirty Sheets of a fuperfine Genoa Paper, printed in a large beautiful Character.

II. The Additions will confift in a preliminary Difcourfe, and an useful Alphabetical Index. III. The Figures will be engraved on Copper-Plates, by one of the best Artifts in London. IV. The whole will be compleated and ready. to be delivered by the Beginning of next Michaelmas Term.

V. The Price to the Subscribers is a Guinea for each Copy.ht

Subfcriptions are taken in, and Receipts delivered by Mr. Symon, in Cornbill ; Mr. Riving ton, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Meffieurs Of born and Longman, in Pater-Nofter-Row; Mr. Woodward, in Fleet-ftreet Mr. Brindley, in New Bond-ftreet; Mr. Stagg, in Westminster

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Hall Mr. Prevoft, in the Strand; and at the Editor's Houfe in Bow-Lane.

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QEFORE thefe Propofals were publish'd, I chad received several imperfect Informations, fome of them from Paris, that other Persons defigned or had actually begun to tranflate thisBook, and on the 17th of May a Letter was brought to me by the Penny-poft,on the fame Subject, dated four Days before, and figned R. Builer. As the Gentleman who wrote it, whoever he be, did not think fit to let me know to what Place I could fend him an Answer, I took the Liberty to defire that Favour of him in the Daily Poft-Boy of May 19. but have never heard from him fince: In the prefent State of the Republick of Let ters for April laft, printed for Mr. Innys, I find the Conditions of my Subfcription inferted in the fecond Literary Article from London with a N. B. annex'd, which appears evidently to come from the Writer of the Letter already mention'd, and therefore the fame fhort Answer will ferve for both.

I am fo far from pretending to a fole Liberty or Privilege of tranflating this Work, that it was folely becaufe I could not have any fuch Privilege in this Country, that I found myself under a Neceffity of taking in a Subfcription; And this Expedient has already fucceeded so well that I am now under no manner of Apprehenfion that I fhall lofe any Part of the Fruit of my Undertaking, tho' a confiderable Progrefs were made in twenty different Tranflations by Perfons who believe they understand both French and English as well as I do, and even the Subject too, which this Advertiser has left out, in the modest Picture he

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has drawn of his own Abilities. My only Care hence forward fhall be, fully to answer the Expectations of those who have encouraged me, by an accurate Tranflation, valuable Additions, and a beautiful and correct Impreffion..

Had this Gentleman been fo good as to let me know where to direct an Anfwer to the Letter he fent me, I defigned to have fet him right about one thing, in which I am afraid fome very boneft Bookfeller has mifled him, I mean how far the Property of any Undertaking of this kind, is understood among Men of Honour, to be fecured to the Perfon who firft advertifes it in the News-Papers; but it is unneceffary to trouble the Publick with any thing more upon this head than what I have faid in my Propofals.

Bow-Lane, near Cheap-fide,

June 3. 1732.

G. DOUGLAS.