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The Courtier’s Calling: Shewing the Ways of Making a Fortune, and the Art of Living at Court, according to the Maxims of Policy & Morality. In Two Parts.
Jacques de Caillieres. J.C. for Richard Tonson, 1675.
The first concerning noblemen: the second concerning gentlemen. By a person of honour, engraved frontispiece, errata at end.
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