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B00052 A discouerie of the countries of Tartaria, Scithia, & Cataya, by the northeast: with the maners, fashions, and orders which are vsed in those countries. / Set foorth by Iohn Frampton merchaunt. Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596. 1580 (1580) STC 11255; ESTC S92572 34,080 90

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