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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28477	A natural history containing many not common observations extracted out of the best modern writers / by Sir Thomas Pope Blount, Baronet.	Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir, 1649-1697.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3351; ESTC R17881	141,855	470

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