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| Title | A General Catalogue of Books: Arranged in Classes, Offered for Sale |
| Author | Bernard Quaritch |
| Publisher | G. Norman, 1868 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jun 15, 2007 |
| Length | 1130 pages |
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