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A50819 A new cosmography, or, Survey of the whole world in six ingenious and comprehensive discourses, with a previous discourse, being a new project for bringing up young men to learning / humbly dedicated to the Honourable Henry Lyttelton, Esq. by Guy Miege, Gent. Miege, Guy, 1644-1718? 1682 (1682) Wing M2015; ESTC R10178 68,375 155

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