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Pleasure with profit : consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical

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Publication date: 1695.
Call number: 751625
Creator: Leybourn, William (1626-1716)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (folio)
Associated people: Sault, Richard, (-1702.)
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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