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A64873 The history of the revolutions in Sweden occasioned by the change of religion and alteration of the government in that kingdom / written originally in French by the Abbot Vertat ; printed the last year at Paris, and now done into English by J. Mitchel ... ; with a map of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.; Histoire des révolutions de Suède. English Vertot, Abbé de, 1655-1735.; Mitchel, J. (John) 1696 (1696) Wing V273; ESTC R1529 219,797 358

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