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A33747 The situation of paradise found out being an history of a late pilgrimage unto the Holy Land, with a necessary apparatus prefixt, giving light into the whole design ... Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708. 1683 (1683) Wing C5064; ESTC R18407 113,799 258

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