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Love of country, or Sobieski and Hedwig
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Love of country, or, Sobieski and Hedwig : compiled and translated from the French
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Standt, Hedwig to Orrin M. Peck
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LI 280(1)
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Unbound manuscript with paper cover. In German.
LI 9