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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

The Life of King Edward VII: with a sketch of the career of King George V
Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell)
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