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A49902 Memoirs of Emeric count Teckely in four books, wherein are related all the most considerable transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, from his birth, anno 1656, till after the Battel of Salankement, in the year 1691 / translated out of French.; Histoire d'Emeric, comte de Tekeli. English Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736. 1693 (1693) Wing L822; ESTC R39725 143,365 368

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