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A56035
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Proposals for printing Athenæ Oxonienses, and Fasti Oxonienses Both written by the famous antiquary, and historiographer, Anthony à Wood, M.A. author of the History, and antiquities of the University of Oxford.
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1691
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Wing P3734; ESTC R221540
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