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A85918 The first lecture, of an introduction to cosmographie, (vvhich is a description of all the world) / read publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbier his academy, at Bednall-Greene. Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667. 1649 (1649) Wing G557; Thomason E573_5; ESTC R206200 7,181 15

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