Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, 2 tomas

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John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829

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