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Optical lantern readings : Sydney, New South Wales / by a colonist [attributed to Charles Kerry]
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Optical lantern readings : Sydney, New South Wales / by a colonist [attributed to Charles Kerry]

by Charles Henry Kerry

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Accession 19957 ISBN — Publisher Alabaster, Passmore and Sons
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