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A35244 Miracles of art and nature, or, A brief description of the several varieties of birds, beasts, fishes, plants, and fruits of other countreys : together with several other remarkable things in the world by R.B., Gent. R. B., 1632?-1725? 1678 (1678) Wing C7345; ESTC R21178 31,543 130

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