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A63799 Miscellania: or, A collection of necessary, useful, and profitable tracts on variety of subjects which for their excellency, and benefit of mankind, are compiled in one volume. By Thomas Tryon physiologus. Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703. 1696 (1696) Wing T3185; ESTC R220931 73,089 207

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