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Rivington, James, 1724-1802 [Knox's account]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04424 Author/Creator: Rivington, James, 1724-1802 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: December 1789 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 16.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm Order a Copy

Lists charges for books to the account by date, 30 September 1789 - 2 December 1789. Books include "Clarke's Vigetius," probably John Clarke's translation of Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's book, Epitoma rei militaris. Also includes James Hampton's translation of Polybius's History; Charles Forster Smith's translation of Thucydides; one Marine Dictionary; "Lloyd on War" (likely Henry Lloyd's book, The history of the late war in Germany...); and "Fergusons Society," likely Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Rivington, James, 1724-1802
Rivington, John, fl. 1789
Hampton, James, 1721-1778
Smith, Charles Forster, 1852-1931
Lloyd, Henry, 1720-1783
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816

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