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| Title | Fifty celebrated men: their lives and trials [&c.]. |
| Author | Fifty celebrated men |
| Publisher | David C. Cook, 1862 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 311 pages |
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