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A39724 A relation of ten years in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America all by way of letters occasionally written to divers noble personages, from place to place, and continued to this present year / by Richard Fleckno. Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678? 1656 (1656) Wing F1232; ESTC R24329 76,341 184

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