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| Title | A Hand-book of Politics for 1874: Being a Record of Important Political Action, National and State, from July 15, 1872, to July 15, 1874 |
| Author | Edward McPherson |
| Publisher | Solomons & Chapman, 1874 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Dec 6, 2006 |
| Length | 246 pages |
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