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| Title | The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volume 1 Bohn's illustrated library The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Samuel Sharpe |
| Author | Samuel Sharpe |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | George Bell and sons, 1885 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 842 pages |
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