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A93284 Rare verities. The cabinet of Venus unlocked, and her secrets laid open. : Being a translation of part of Sinibaldus, his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things out of other Latin authors, never before in English.; Geneanthropeiae. Selections. English Sinibaldi, Giovanni Benedetto, 1594-1658. 1658 (1658) Wing S3863; ESTC R184190 34,716 116

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