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| Title | Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Volume 1 Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Joseph Sansom |
| Author | Joseph Sansom |
| Publisher | author, 1805 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2007 |
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