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The instructive library: or, an entertainment for the curious, the improvement of the learned, the information of the ignorant, the satisfaction of all good men, and the confusion of the bad. By a friend of the author of the Tale of a tub

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1710.
Call number: 352011
Creator: Friend of the Author of the Tale of a Tub(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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