Sales catalogue: Luzac's

Date:
July - September 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/41/4
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Luzac's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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