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Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
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Rosenbach, A.S.W.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
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George Thomason
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Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
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Nikolay Petrovich, Count Rumyantsev
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James Lenox
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Henry E. Huntington
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Berthold Laufer
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Apellicon Of Teos
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