Index of Certain Books Selected from All Elegant Literature and for the Most Part Rare

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The owner, compelled by the hardships of the times and of his own household affairs to bid farewell to his more pleasant studies and to gather up the scraps, has decided to test whether he might preempt the weariness of an auction.

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