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William Houston (1755 - 1813)

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William Churchill Houston (c. 1746 – August 12, 1788) was an American teacher, lawyer, and statesman. He was a delegate to both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention for New Jersey. Houston was elected in 1785 to the American Philosophical Society.

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The poems of Ossian.
Transcribed: Ossians Poems		James MacphersonVolume 16/18/17907/8/1790
The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly translated from the originals; illustrated with notes, anecdotes, dissertations, and the life of Machiavel, never before published; and several new plans on the art of war. By Ellis Farneworth, M. A. Vicar of Rosthern in Cheshire, translator of the Life of Pope Sixtus V. and Davila’s History of the civil wars of France. In two volumes. ...
Transcribed: Machiavels works		Ellis FarneworthVolume 16/18/17907/1/1790
The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly translated from the originals; illustrated with notes, anecdotes, dissertations, and the life of Machiavel, never before published; and several new plans on the art of war. By Ellis Farneworth, M. A. Vicar of Rosthern in Cheshire, translator of the Life of Pope Sixtus V. and Davila’s History of the civil wars of France. In two volumes. ...
Transcribed: Machiavel Works		Ellis FarneworthVolume 27/2/17907/29/1790
Six sketches on the history of man
Transcribed: Homes Sketches		Lord Henry Home KamesVolume 17/12/17907/29/1790
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: Don Quixote		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 110/5/179110/12/1791
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: "		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 210/12/179110/19/1791
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: "		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 112/19/179112/28/1791
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: "		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 212/28/17911/5/1792
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: "		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 31/5/17921/18/1792
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, some account of the author’s life. By T. Smollett, M.D. Illustrated with twenty-eight new copper-plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved. The fourth edition, corrected. In four volumes.
Transcribed: "		Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraVolume 41/18/17922/1/1792
A year's journey through France, and part of Spain / by Philip Thicknesse.
Transcribed: Thickness Journey		Philip ThicknesseVolume 12/1/17922/10/1792
A year's journey through France, and part of Spain / by Philip Thicknesse.
Transcribed: "		Philip ThicknesseVolume 22/10/17922/13/1792
A tour through Sicily and Malta. In a series of letters to William Beckford, from P. Brydone, in two volumes
Transcribed: Bridone Tour		Patrick Brydone2/13/17923/3/1792
Travels in North-America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782 / by the Marquis de Chastellux, one of the forty members of the French Academy, and Major General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau translated from the French by an English gentleman, who resided in America at that period with notes by the translator
Transcribed: Chateleaux Tra		François-Jean ChastelluxVolume 23/6/17923/7/1792
Travels into the interior parts of Africa. By the way of the Cape of Good Hope; in the years 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85. Translated from the French of M. Le Vaillant. ...
Transcribed: Vaillants "		François Le Vaillant3/7/17923/21/1792
Travels in North-America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782 / by the Marquis de Chastellux, one of the forty members of the French Academy, and Major General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau translated from the French by an English gentleman, who resided in America at that period with notes by the translator
Transcribed: Chateleaux Travels		François-Jean ChastelluxVolume 13/21/17924/4/1792
Travels in North-America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782 / by the Marquis de Chastellux, one of the forty members of the French Academy, and Major General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau translated from the French by an English gentleman, who resided in America at that period with notes by the translator
Transcribed: "		François-Jean ChastelluxVolume 24/2/17924/12/1792
Memoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky, Magnate of the Kingdom of Hungary and Poland, one of the chiefs of the Confederation of Poland &c., &c.
Transcribed: Benyowsky		Maurice Auguste BenyowskyVolume 14/12/17925/3/1792
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