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BANCROFT’S HISTORY OF AMERICA. The Colonization and its Results. With Index.
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BANCROFT’S HISTORY OF AMERICA. Vols. 3, 4, and 5, with Index. Continuing the History from its Colonization, and completing a period in the History of the American Revolution.
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MICHAUD’S HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES, The First English Edition translated from the French; with Notes. Memoir and Preface by W. Robson.
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