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A63407 A collection of several relations and treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne not printed among his first six voyages ... / published by Edmund Everard, Esquire ... Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Everard, Edmund. 1680 (1680) Wing T250; ESTC R35212 152,930 194

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