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| Title | Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalog of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Illustrating the History & Geography of North & South America and the West Indies |
| Author | John Russell Smith |
| Publisher | Alfred Russell Smith, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 4 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 733 pages |
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