Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science : Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Том 1

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Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, 1805

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