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A29918 The discovery of a proiector shewing the beginning, progresse, and end of the projector and his projects : also the projectors last will and testament, with an epitaph to his memory / by T. Brugis, Gent. Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640? 1641 (1641) Wing B5222; ESTC R252 19,877 46

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