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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41373	The golden age, or, The reign of Saturn review'd tending to set forth a true and natural way to prepare and fix common mercury into silver and gold : intermix'd with a discourse vindicating and explaining that famous universal medicine of the ancients, vulgarly called the philosophers stone, built upon four natural principles / an essay written by Hortolanus, junr. ; preserved and published by R.G.	Hortolanus, junior.; R. G.	1698 (1698)	Wing G1011; ESTC R30416	83,091	240

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