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Catalogue of the first portion of the extensive & varied collection of rare books & manuscripts relating chiefly to the history & literature of America : comprising the great collections of voyages & travels of De Bry (in Latin and German) Hulsius Thevenot Purchas and Hakluyt with early separate voyages of the Dutch English and French navigators; early American history and literature; Burns's autograph poems; black-letter and other early English and American ballads ... and Henry Stevens's Franklin collecion
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