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| Título | Miscellanies, Political and Literary |
| Autor | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff |
| Editor | Macmillan and Company, 1878 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 29 Oct. 2007 |
| Largo | 315 páginas |
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