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A16281 The fardle of facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asia.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1-2. English Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae.; Waterman, William, fl. 1555? 1555 (1555) STC 3197; ESTC S102775 133,143 358

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