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A61927 The mock-Clelia being a comical history of French gallantries and novels, in imitation of Dom Quixote / translated out of French. Subligny, sieur de, ca. 1640-ca. 1679. 1678 (1678) Wing S6107_VARIANT; ESTC R33822 163,594 376

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