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A35607
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The Conduct and character of Count Nicholas Serini, Protestant Generalissimo of the auxiliaries in Hungary ... with his parallels Scanderbeg & Tamberlain : interwoven with the principal passages of the Christians and Turks discipline and success, since the infidels first invasion of Europe, in the year 1313.
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1664
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Wing C90; ESTC R6470
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