The Guide to Knowledge: Or Repertory of Facts, Forming a Complete Library of Entertaining Information, in the Several Departments of Science, Literature, and Art, Embellished by Several Hundred EngravingsRobert Sears Edward Walker, 1845 - 484 pages |
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