A collection of choice, scarce, and valuable tracts , being taken from manuscripts and printed books, very uncommon, and not to be found but in the libraries of the curious, by a gentleman who has search'd after them for above twenty years.

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A collection of choice, scarce, and valuable tracts , being taken from manuscripts and printed books, very uncommon, and not to be found but in the libraries of the curious, by a gentleman who has search'd after them for above twenty years.