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A02320 The letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated into English, according to the last edition. By W.T. Esq; Epistolarum liber unus. English Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Tyrwhit, William. 1634 (1634) STC 12452; ESTC S103512 145,059 448

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