The NEWGATE CALENDAR IMPROVED; being Interesting Memoirs of the most Notorious Characters, who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England during the Eighteenth Century; and continued to the present time, chronologically arranged; comprising Traitors, Murderers, Incendiaries, Ravishers, Pirates, Mutineers, Coiners, Highwaymen, Footpads, House-breakers, Rioters, Extortioners, Sharpers, Forgers, Pickpockets, Fraudulent Bankrupts, Money-droppers, Impostors, and Thieves of every description; and containing a number of interesting cases never before published. With Occasional Remarks on Crimes and Punishments; Original Anecdotes; Moral Reflections and Observations on particular cases; Explanations of the Criminal Laws; the Speeches, Confessions, and last Exclamations of Sufferers. To which is added, a Correct Account of the various Modes of Punishment of Criminals in different parts of the World. By GEORGE THEODORE WILKINSON, Esq.
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GALLOWAY AND HEBERT'S History and Progress of the STEAM-ENGINE; with a practical investigation of its Structure and Application; containing also Minute Descriptions of all the various Improved Boilers; the constituent parts of Steam-Engines; the Machinery used in Steam Navigation; the New Plans for Steam Carriages; and a variety of Engines for the application of other Motive Powers; with an Experimental Dissertation on the Nature and Properties of Steam, and other Elastic Vapours; the strength and weight of materials, &c., &c. Illustrated by upwards of Three Hundred Engravings. Published in Nine Parts, at Two Shillings, or Thirty-six Numbers, at Sixpence each.
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