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A28024 Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical now for the first time faithfully published ... Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715. 1679 (1679) Wing B269; ESTC R9006 137,175 384

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