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A48041 A Letter from an eminent merchant in Constantinople to a friend in London giving an exact relation of the great and glorious cavalcade of Sultan Mahomet the fourth, present emperour of the Turks, as he marched out of Constantinople, for the invasion of Christendome, and the siege of Vienna. 1683 (1683) Wing L1443; ESTC R43390 1,693 2

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