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The geography of the heavens : and class-book of astronomy : accompanied by a celestial atlas (1860)

Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale), 1794-1838, Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York : Mason Brothers · leaf 274

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