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| Title | Mundus alter et item |
| Author | Joseph Hall |
| Editor | Hector James Anderson |
| Publisher | G. Bell and Sons, 1908 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 23, 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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