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| Title | Taplin's improved edition of Walkingame's Tutor's assistant. To which is added, an appendix on circulating decimals (by R.H. Nicholls). Taplin's improved edition of Walkingame's Tutor's assistant. To which is added, an appendix on circulating decimals, Francis Walkingame |
| Author | Francis Walkingame |
| Editors | R H Nicholls, J W Taplin |
| Published | 1835 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 6 Apr 2006 |
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