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A65181 A voyage round the world, or, A pocket-library divided into several volumes ... : the whole work intermixt with essays, historical, moral, and divine, and all other kinds of learning / done into English by a lover of travels ... Dunton, John, 1659-1733. 1691 (1691) Wing V742; ESTC R19949 241,762 498

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