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Edited by Dr. Lardner. With upwards of 1,200 Engravings on Wood. In Six Double Volumes, £1 1s. in a new and elegant cloth binding; or handsomely bound in half-morocco
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- Popular Astronomy. 4s. 6d. cloth.
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