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| Title | Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes |
| Author | Thomas William Webb |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1873 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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