A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 |
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| Title | A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 |
| Author | Sir John Carr |
| Publisher | published, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Oct 15, 2007 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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