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La Louisiana, Partie Settentrionalle, Scoperta sotto la Protettione di Luigi XIV, Re di Francia, etc. Descritta, e Dedicata Dal P. Cosmografo Coronelli, All' Illustriss; et Eccellentis s. Zaccaria Bernardi, fu dell' Ecc. S. Francesco



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