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A78009 Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English. Now collected into one volume, with a methodicall table of all the letters. 1. 2. 3. and 4th parts. By Sr Richard Baker Knight, and others.; Correspondence. English Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1595-1654. 1654 (1654) Wing B614; Thomason E1444_1; ESTC R209109 450,799 529

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