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Geography rectified; or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy eight maps. The 3d ed., enl. To which is added a compleat geographical index to the whole, alphabetically digested. The whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors (1693)

Morden, Robert, d. 1703 · London, Printed for R. Morden and T. Cockerill · leaf 25

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