Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	contain_v	history_n	year_n	3,071	5	5.5025	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28944	Certain physiological essays and other tracts written at distant times, and on several occasions by the honourable Robert Boyle ; wherein some of the tracts are enlarged by experiments and the work is increased by the addition of a discourse about the absolute rest in bodies.	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1669 (1669)	Wing B3930; ESTC R17579	210,565	356

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