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    <namePart>Magalhães, João Jacinto de</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>1788</dateIssued>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">By Axel Frederic Cronstedt ... Translated from the original Swedish, with annotations, and an additional treatise on the blow-pipe. By Gustav von Engestrom ...</note>
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