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A44721 A German diet, or, The ballance of Europe wherein the power and vveaknes ... of all the kingdoms and states of Christendom are impartially poiz'd : at a solemn convention of som German princes in sundry elaborat orations pro & con ... / by James Howell, Esq. Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1653 (1653) Wing H3079; ESTC R4173 250,318 212

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