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A51180 The delights of Holland: or, A three months travel about that and the other provinces With observations and reflections on their trade, wealth, strength, beauty, policy, &c. together with a catalogue of the rarities in the anatomical school at Leyden. By William Mountague, Esq; Mountague, William. 1696 (1696) Wing M2477; ESTC R217433 57,787 247

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