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A26310 A new journal of Italy containing what is most remarkable of the antiquities of Rome, Savoy and Naples : with observations made upon the strength, beauty and scituation [sic] of some other towns and forts in by William Acton. Acton, William. 1691 (1691) Wing A452A; ESTC R28076 30,216 85

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