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A20178 The secrets of angling Teaching, the choisest tooles baytes and seasons, for the taking of any fish, in pond or riuer: practised and familiarly opened in three bookes. By I.D. Esquire. Dennys, John, d. 1609. 1613 (1613) STC 6611; ESTC S113570 21,423 62

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