The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 34John George Cochrane 1845 |
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John George Cochrane. ( 421 ) ART . IX - Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of South- ern Africa , delineated from Life in their Native Haunts during a hunting Expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn , in ...
John George Cochrane. ( 421 ) ART . IX - Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of South- ern Africa , delineated from Life in their Native Haunts during a hunting Expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn , in ...
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