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A41533 The present state of the republick of Venice as to the government, laws, forces, riches, manners, customes, revenue, and territory of that common-wealth : with a relation of the present war in Candia / written by J. Gailhard, gent. Gailhard, J. (Jean) 1669 (1669) Wing G126; ESTC R17673 97,861 294

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