A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe: Vol. 1-3. Privately Pr, Volume 1 |
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Page 197 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.
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| Title | A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe: Vol. 1-3. Privately Pr, Volume 1 A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe: Vol. 1-3. Privately Pr, Robert Hoe |
| Author | Robert Hoe |
| Publisher | Privatly Print., 1905 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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