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A64764 A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses and refutations of such vulgar errours as our modern authors have hitherto omitted / by Eugenius Philalethes. Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666. 1669 (1669) Wing V145; ESTC R1446 49,654 136

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