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A52025 A new survey of the Turkish empire, history and government compleated being an exact and absolute discovery of what is worthy of knowledge or any way satisfactory to curiosity in that mighty nation : with several brass pieces lively expressing the most eminent personages concerned in this subject. March, Henry, fl. 1663-1664. 1664 (1664) Wing M731; ESTC R30516 151,268 306

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