Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1838 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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