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A70955 The present state of the islands in the archipelago, or Arches, seas of Constantinople and gulph [sic] of Smyrna with the islands of Candia and Rhodes / faithfully describ'd by Ber. Randolph : to which is annexed an index shewing the longitude and latitude of all the places in the new map of Greece lately published by the same author. Randolph, Bernard, b. 1643. 1687 (1687) Wing R234; ESTC R7743 59,927 136

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