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| Title | Colburn's First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic, Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction |
| Author | Warren Colburn |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1827 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 172 pages |
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