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A55326
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England and East-India inconsistent in their manufactures being an answer to a treatise intituled, An essay on the East-India trade by the author of, The essay of wayes and means.
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Pollexfen, John, b. ca. 1638.
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1697
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Wing P2779; ESTC R23303
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