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RNYG.781.096
19 May 1781:13,14 (484)
An entire new Importation of Books, by the Ship Nancy,
arrived from London, and to be had of James Rivington. . .
[page 1, col. 3 lists magazines, histories, grammars, travel
books, grammars, books in French and German, and military
ones. Col. 4 lists military ones for 12 lines]
The following English Miscellanies, Poets, and other Volumes
of entertainment, elegantly bound, and calculated for
acceptable presents to young ladies and gentlemen.
Shakespeare's Plays, . . . [20 lines listing works of Pope,
Rousseau, Horace, Fielding, etc.] Gay's Fables. . . . [ll
lines] Bell's British Poets, in 50 volumes, finely bound
and fixed in a portab'e case, under lock and key. . . . [60
lines listing dictionaries, books on medicine and school
books]
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