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| Pealkiri | The Magazine of Magazines: Compiled from Original Pieces, with Extracts from the Most Celebrated Books, and Periodical Compositions, Published in Europe... The Whole Forming a Complete Literary and Historical Account of that Period..., 13. köide |
| Publisher | Andrew Welsh, 1757 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 nov. 2007 |
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