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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

PEARS' CYCLOPAEDIA

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Red linen cover with black lettering and design. End papers have Flags of the Empire (front) and Flags of Foreign Countries (back) with A. & F. Pears Ltd Soap Makers by Appointment to Their Majesties the King & Queen and to their late Majesties Queen Victoria & King Edward VII with Insignia. Fortieth Editiion Pears Cyclopaedia, Twenty-two Complete Works of Reference in one Handy Volume of over 1,000 pages. 10534 pages, illustrated, maps, & ready reckoner from one-sixteenth of a penny to twenty-one shillings. Frontis: St Paul's, from Blackfriars Bridge 1820.

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cwa-org-51-B2009.128

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BARRATT, Herbert C. (General Editor)

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Reference Works

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Used by local Albany resident

Albany Historical Society Inc

Albany Historical Society Inc

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