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A95921 The Count of Gabalis, or, Conferences about secret sciences rendered out of French into English by A.L. ...; Comte de Gabalis. English Villars, abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri), 1635-1673. 1680 (1680) Wing V386B; ESTC R226487 50,429 145

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