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The First [-Second] Part of The History of theValorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixoteof the Mancha
Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1927-1928. 2 volumes, folio (17 x 12 inches). Text printed in double columns with chapter headings and shoulder notes in red, woodcut foliated initials and borders by W.M. Quick and George H. Ford after Louise Powell. Uncut. Full green crushed morocco, bound by W.H. Smith and Son, spines with raised bands in six compartments, first and second gilt lettered. Cloth and marbled board slipcases. One of 225 copies on Batchelor paper, out of a total edition of 245 copies. (#35820) $ 7,000.
ASHENDENEPRESS
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The American Builder's Companion; or, A System of Architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged
Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, Jr., 1811. Quarto (10 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches). iv, [1], 6-104, [2] pp. 59 engraved plates. Contemporary manuscript drawing of a staircase design on the rear blank. Contemporary sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, green morocco lettering piece. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. Very rare early American architectural manual, by America's first architectural writer: a work which greatly influenced Greek Revival architecture in America. (#35905) $ 5,500
ASHERBENJAMIN
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Eight Etchings 1930-1959.
New York: Sylvan Cole Gallery, 1985. Quarto (13 1/4 x 10 inches). Portfolio with complete text and 8 etchings, printed by Stephen Sholinsky at Stem Graphics, New York and published by Associated American Artists, New York. Each etching signed by Bishop and numbered I/VII. Publisher's cloth box, upper cover lettered in gilt. One of seven artist's proofs, each signed by Bishop. (#35281) $ 3,500
ISABELBISHOP
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The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry ... by J. B. Gent.
London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, 1670. Two parts in one, 8vo. [4], 306, [14]; [8, including engraved additional title to the second part], 59, [5], [2]pp. Publisher's ads in the rear. With the 4pp. Table to the second part bound in following the title (between Aa1 and Aa2). Contemporary calf, covers and spine ruled in blind, early reparis to the upper cover corners. Scarce English 17th century work on husbandry. (#35489) $ 2,750.
JOSEPHBLAGRAVE
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Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, contenant 1. Un nouveau Dictionnaire bibliographique, ... 2. Une table en forme de catalogue raisonné.
Paris: Brunet, Libraire ... Leblanc, Impr.-Libre., 1810. 3 volumes, octavo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches). Half-titles. Text in two columns. Contemporary calf, flat spines gilt with red and black morocco lables, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Bibliotheque Vuilleret (booklabels). An exceptional set of the first edition of this bibliographical milestone. (#36146) $ 1,250.
JACQUES CHARLESBRUNET , FILS
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De Tristibus Franciae libri quatuor.
Lyon: Perrin, 1840. Quarto (11 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches). [4], xvi, [2],117 pp., plus numerous plates and illustrations and additional states of the title. Signed by Cailhava. Nineteenth century full green morocco, by Chamolle-Duru, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt edges. First publication of an important illuminated 16th century manuscript: one of 10 thick paper copies with proof impressions of the plates, bound by Chambolle-Duru. (#36217) $ 1,850.
LÉONCAILHAVA
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A Year's Residence in the United States ... By William Cobbett ... Part I ... [Bound with:] Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. By Morris Birkbeck ... [Bound with:] Letters from Illinois. By Morris Birkbeck ... [And with:] Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of FIve Thousand Miles through the Eastern and Western States of America ... By Henry Bradshaw Fearon
London: 1818. Four volumes in one, 8vo. [4], 186; 156pp, plus engraved folding map (hand coloured in outline); xv, [1], 114; vii, [1], 462pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper covered boards, rebacked. A lovely sammelband of English editions of classic accounts of agrarian travels in America. (#35475) $ 1,400.
WILLIAMCOBBETT & OTHERS
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The Art of Making and Colouring Ivorytypes, Photographs, Talbotypes, and Miniature Painting on Ivory & c. together with valuable Receipts never before published.
Philadelphia: By the Author, 1863. 12mo. 52pp. With a hand-painted manuscript colour chart mounted on verso of the title and a signed and inscribed photograph of the author bound in following the title. With a letterpress ad for Cooper's Photographic Gallery mounted onto the rear pastedown. Publisher's cloth, covers stamped in blind and titled in gilt, rebacked and with endpapers renewed. Rare American manual detailing an unusual hand coloured photographic process. (#34700) $ 4,500.
PEREGRINECOOPER
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Spenser's Faerie Queene: A Poem in Six Books. With the Fragment Mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pictured by Walter Crane.
London: George Allen, printed at the Chiswick Press, 1895-97. 6 volumes, quarto 10 13/16 x 8 3/8 inches. Double-page illustrated title pages, woodcut front, head and tailpieces, all by Crane. Uncut on two sides. Contemporary full calf, by Taunton and Evans, spines with raised bands, the bands continued in blind with floral decoration onto the covers, spines lettered in gilt, green endpapers, top edge gilt. Limited to 1000 copies on hand-made paper: in an Arts & Crafts binding by a pair of women bookbinders. (#35889) $ 4,500.
WALTERCRANE
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The Theory and Practice of Gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens commonly called pleasure-gardens, as parterres, groves, bowling-greens, &c. ... By John James.
London: printed by Geo. James, and sold by Maurice Atkins, 1712. Quarto (10 x 7 3/4 inches). [14], 218, [2]pp. Title in red and black, royal license leaf facing the title, 4pp. list of subscribers. 32 folding engraved plates by Michael van der Gucht, 16 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked to style. Provenance: armorial bookplate. The first edition in English of this important work, described by Henrey as the "first important book on garden design to appear in England in the eighteenth century." (#35277) $ 3,750.
A . J . DEZALLIER
D 'ARGENVILLE
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Henrietta Temple, A Love Story.
London: Henry Colburn, 1837. 3 volumes, 8vo. Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece by D'Orsay, with touches of hand coloring, trimmed and mounted on the front blank. Half-title in vol. 1, 2pp. publisher's ads in the rear of vol. 3. Full green morocco by Bedford, covers elaborately tooled in gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others tooled in gilt, silk endpapers. Provenance: Mary Monckton Boyle, Countess of Cork (presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title); Mrs. Prinsep; M.A. Minchen (inserted letter and inscription on the title, see below). First edition: an important presentation copy to Lady Cork, in a lovely binding by Bedford. (#35887) $ 8,500.
BENJAMINDISRAELI
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The Works of William Blake.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893. 3 volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispieces, numerous lithographic plates reproducing Blake's works. Publisher's green cloth, upper covers and spines decoratively blocked in gilt. First edition: one of 500 copies. A lovely example in the publisher's decorative cloth. (#36218) $ 4,000.
E . J . ELLIS &
W . B . YEATS
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Flora Virginica exhibens plantas quas… in Virginia crescents observavit collegit & obtulit.
Leiden: 1762. 4to. [12], 176, [8]pp. Engraved folding map. Errata on verso terminal leaf. Contemporary manuscript annotations throughout. Uncut. Contemporary flexible blue paper covered boards, expertly rebacked to style. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. Provenance: J. Davis. Second and best edition of the first Virginian flora, based on specimens collected by John Clayton at the beginning of the 18th century; this edition the first to include a map of Virginia. (#35216) $ 9,500.
JOHANNES
GRONOVIUS
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Regni Davidici et Salomonæi Descriptio Geographica et Historica, una cum Delineatione Syriæ et Ægypti.
Nuremberg: Officina Hommaniana, 1739. Two parts in one, folio. Title printed in red and black, text in two columns, historiated initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces. 20 hand coloured maps and plates (six folding). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (North Library bookplate to front pastedown, dated 1860). The Macclesfield copy of an important historical atlas of Egypt and the Holy Land. (#35286) $ 3,750.
JOHANN MATTIASHAAS
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Flowers of Evil. Les Fleurs du Mal. Poems by Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French & with an introduction by John Wood. Photographs and an Afterword by Eikoh Hosoe.
South Dennis, Massachusetts: Steven Albahari, 21st Editions, printed by Michael Russem and Mollie Zanoni at the Kat Ran Press, [2006]. Square folio (18 x 15 inches). 11 platinum prints signed by the photographer (10 tipped into the book onto hand-made black paper, 1 free-standing within the publisher's folder), printed by Stan Klimek for Eikoh Hosoe. Black leather-backed matte black anodized aluminum boards, with Japanese title printed in glossy black on the upper cover, bound by Peter Geraty at the Praxis Bindery. Publisher's red silk covered box. One of sixty-five numbered copies signed by the artist, editor and publisher. (#36178) $ 6,500
EIKOH
HOSOE
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An Abridgment of Johnson's Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor: With an Appendix.
Boston: C. L. Adams, 1828. 8vo. [4], 316pp., plus woodcut frontispiece within typographical border (illustrating a Columbian printing press), two woodcut plates in the rear (illustrating Patent Standing Presses by Robert Hoe & Co.), and numerous woodcut illustrations, including 6 full-page iilustrations of printing presses within the Appendix. Title, preface and other leaves within typographically illustrated borders. Contemporary sheep, red morocco lettering piece. Minor wear at head of spine. Provenance: N. W. Goddard (early signature). Very rare first American edition of Johnson's Typographia, and just the second comprehensive American printer’s manual. (#36121) $ 4,500.
JOHNJOHNSON
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Sefer Tehilim. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce Cum Notis Selectis Ex Editione Francisci Hare S.T.P. Espiscopi Cicestrensis: Et Cum Selecta Lectionum Varietate Ex Ed. Vet. Test. Heb. Benj. Kennicott S.T.P.
Cambridge, MA: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1809. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 inches). [2],495pp. Early Yiddish inscription on the front endpaper. Printing flaw to Dd4. Contemporary sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece. The first printing of any part of the Bible in Hebrew in America. (#36116) $ 17,500.
JUDAICA ,
AMERICAN
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Constitution and By-Laws of the American Jewish Publication Society. (Founded on the 9th of Heshvan, 5606). Adopted at Philadelphia, on Sunday, November 30, 1845, Kislev 1, 5606.
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. 12mo. 11, [1]pp. Publisher's plain wrappers. Provenance: Leeser Library Hebrew Education Society (inked stamp on title). The founding of the American Jewish Publication Society: the first Jewish organization in the United States dedicated to the advancement of Jewish Culture and Religion. (#36119) $ 2,500.
JUDAICA,
AMERICAN
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A Bibliography of William Blake .
New York: The Grolier Club, 1921. Quarto. Title page printed in blue and black with small engraved vignette after Blake. xvi,516pp., plus 4 colour plates (including the frontispiece "The Glad Day") and 40 plates in monochrome. With 12 illustrations within the text, mostly reproducing title pages. With the original prospectus laid in. Publisher's dark blue morocco backed blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. One of 250 copies, printed on special paper at the Chiswick Press. A very fine copy with prospectus. (#35942) $ 1,200.
GEOFFREYKEYNES
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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct, compiled from Official Document: Together with an Account of the Civic Celebration of the Fourteenth October, 1842, on occasion of the completion of the great work.
New York: Charles King, 1843. Quarto. vii, [1], 308pp. Engraved view, after Robert Havell, engraved by Jordan and Halpin. Foxing. Publisher's brown pebble-grained morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine with wide semi-raised bands in five compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers, gilt edge. Provenance: Jacob Miller (name in gilt on the upper cover). In an elaborate presentation binding. (#35197) $ 1,000.
CHARLESKING
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The Complete Gard'ner; Or, directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen gardens ... Now Compendiously Abedg'd, and made more Use with very considerable additions ... Fifth Edition Corrected.
London: Printed for Andrew Bell, 1710. 8vo. [2], xxxvi, 325, [7]pp. Engraved frontispiece and 10 engraved folding plates. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments. Provenance: H. Middleton (early signature on verso of the frontispiece); Richard Middleton (signature on endpaper). Influential English edition of the most important work by the leading French gardener of the seventeenth century: based on the translation by John Eveyln. (#35494) $ 950.
JEAN DE
LA QUINTINYE
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Itinéraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des parties latérales de l'Amérique du Nord.
Paris: Henri Gaugain et Cie, 1828-1829. 3 volumes. (text: 2 vols., quarto, 14 x 10 1/2 inches; atlas: folio, 12 5/16 x 18 5/8 inches). Text: half-titles, uncut. Atlas: pictorial lithographed upper wrapper bound as a title page, by Georges after Smith, 54 fine uncoloured lithographed views after Milbert by Deroy, V. Adam, Villeneuve, and others, all the plates on india paper mounted, 1 hand-coloured double-page lithographed map after H. Toquet. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled paper covered boards, flat spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. First edition of an outstanding series of American views: a fine set on India Paper and including an uncut large paper set of the text volumes. (#23594) $ 24,000.
JACQUES-GÉRARDMILBERT
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Manuscript letterbook and financial accounts ledger of a Boston merchant and factor in the Newfoundland cod fishery.
Boston and Placentia, Newfoundland: 1731-1732. Folio. Written recto and verso on approx. 90 leaves, plus blanks. With approx. 30 leaves of unrelated accounts dated 1827-1831. Some dampstaining and some leaves detached, but legible throughout. Contemporary vellum. Housed in a cloth box. A primary source for the study of American activity in the Newfoundland cod fishery in the early British period. (#35753) $ 7,500.
EDWARDMILLS
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Flowers from My Garden. Sketched and painted from nature by ... Munson. With an introductory poem by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney.
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1864. Large quarto (12 1/16 x 10 5/16 inches). Frontispiece and 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Munson. Light foxing, principally to the text. Publisher's maroon morocco, the covers with elaborate borders blocked in blind, the upper cover with title and within a decorative design blocked in gilt, spine with raised bands, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Josephine F. Allen (early signature). A scarce American botanical gift book with finely hand coloured plates after Victorian artist Laura Gordon Munson. (#36126) $ 4,500.
LAURA GORDONMUNSON
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Cosmographia, or a View of the Terrestrial and Coelestial Globes, in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid geometry
London: Printed for Thomas Passinger, 1679. 8vo. Title printed in red and black. [16], 320, 319-510, [16] pp. 14 engraved plates (11 folding). 4pp. ads in the rear. Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled pastedowns, gilt edges. Provenance: William Ian Turner (collector's blindstamp). Early English pedagogical treatise on mathematics. (#35998) $ 2,800.
JOHN
NEWTON
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Manuscript accounts ledger relating to a Kingston papermill.
Kingston County, PA: June 1815 to December 1815. Tall, skinny folio. 334pp. Initial eight leaves with mounted newspaper clippings. Contemporary reverse calf, spine perished, marbled endpapers. Ledger recording the purchases made by the founder of a Pennsylvania paper mill. (#35805) $ 1,750.
PAPERMAKING -
HENRY BUCKINGHAM
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The commonplace book and the day book/accounts ledger of a Delaware papermaker.
Newark, Delaware: 1812-c.1844. 2 volumes, small folio. [Commonplace Book:] 47 leaves, written recto and verso. Signed numerous times within. [Day Book/Accounts ledger:] Approx. 40 leaves, written recto and verso, plus numerous blanks. With later, unrelated additions in the rear. Contemporary boards (commonplace book) or calf-backed boards (daybook). The life of a papermaker in early 19th century Delaware. (#35814) $ 5,750.
PAPERMAKING -
JOSEPH HENDERSON
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An Essay on the Construction, Hanging, and Fastening of Gates ... Second Edition; Improved and enlarged ... [Bound with:] Designs for Gates and Rails suitable to Parks, Pleasure Grounds, Balconys &c.
London: Printed by C. Whittingham ... for Lackington, Allen and Co., 1804; London: J. Taylor, [circa 1805]. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo (9 x 5 1/4 inches). [Parker:] [8], 116pp. 6 engraved folding plates. [Middleton:] Engraved title, 26 engraved plates (numbered 2-27). 8pp. publisher's ads. Early calf backed marbled paper covered boards, vellum tips, flat spine divided into compartments by gilt rules, black morocco lettering piece in the second compartment. Two scarce early 19th century English works on gates and railings for landscape design, bound together. (#28265) $ 2,850.
T. PARKER &
C . MIDDLETON
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L'Antotrofia ossia la Coltivazione de'Fiori.
Florence: V. Betelli e Figli, 1834. 2 volumes, 8vo. 72 hand coloured plates. Contemporary calf-backed cloth covered boards, flat spines elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt. First edition of a lovely 19th century Italian flower book. (#35247) $ 1,850.
ANTONIO
PICCIOLI
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The cabinet-maker's guide, or rules and instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal.
Greenfield, MA: Ansel Phelps, 1825. 12mo (6 x 3 1/2 inches). 108pp. Publisher's ad on rear board. Publisher's lettered boards, rebacked at an early date with blue checked calico cloth. Provenance: A. Lovett (signature dated 1830). The first furniture finisher's manual published in America. (#34793) $ 6,500.
G. A.
SIDDONS
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The Electrotypers' Manual.
Buffalo: 1869. 8vo. 34pp. 12 illustrations of the various presses, machines and tools used in the process. Publisher's yellow lettered wrappers. Scarce detailed explanation of the electrotype printing process. (#36122) $ 750.
WILLIAM STUART
SPEIRS
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A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, Being a compleat Discovery of those Arts. With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals: and of painting mezzo-tinto-prints.
Oxford: Printed for and sold by the Authors, 1688. Folio (14 1/4 x 9 inches). [8], 84pp. 24 engraved plates. (Old repair at lower edge of one plate, minor age toning). Expertly bound to style in period calf, covers bordered with a gilt double fillet, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Very rare complete copy of an early English pattern book of Oriental designs. (#30589) $ 17,500.
JOHN STALKER &
GEORGE PARKER
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The Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. Two volumes in six. Profusely EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with over 300 inserted portraits and views. Nineteenth century full red morocco gilt, bound by Kaufmann. Provenance: Sophia Augusta Brown (signature on titles). A "grangerized" set of the Life of Ticknor, with provenance to John Carter Brown's daughter. (#35932) $ 3,900.
GEORGE
TICKNOR
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An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness, and its Effects on the Human Body ... the First Philadelphia Edition, Corrected and Enlarged
Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1813. 8vo. 203, [1]pp. Browning. Modern brown leather, retaining the original lettering piece. First American edition of the first book-length work on alcohol dependence and its treatment: a prescient examination in which alcoholism is defined as a disease. (#35729) $ 1,500.
THOMAS
TROTTER
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Military Pyrotechny for the use of The Cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point.
[West Point: Lithographed by J. C. Poortermans], 1832 [lithographed 1831]. Folio (13 5/8 x 8 inches). Lithographed throughout. [4, including blank following the title], 55, [1]pp. 24 folding lithographed plates. Uncut. Bound to style in half calf and original marbled paper boards. Housed in a oatmeal cloth box with leather label. The first edition of the first book produced by lithography at West Point: an illustrated manual on the production of ordinance. (#30526) $ 5,250.
WEST POINT
MILITARY ACADEMY
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