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Out of the flames : the story of one of the rarest books in the world, and how it changed the course of history / Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone.

The friar and the cipher : Roger Bacon and the unsolved mystery of the most unusual manuscript in the world / Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone.

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Out of the flames : the story of one of the rarest books in the world, and how it changed the course of history / Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone.

The friar and the cipher : Roger Bacon and the unsolved mystery of the most unusual manuscript in the world / Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone.