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THE LIFE OF

HENRIETTE SONTAG,
COUNTESS DE ROSSI.

[Illustration: portrait of Henriette Sontag]

NEW YORK:
STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 BROADWAY

1852

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"DAGUERREOTYPE VIEWS OF UPPERTENDOM"

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Sketches of American Society.

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"NEW-YORK LIFE, by a New-Yorker, clever, sparkling, and life-like. A set
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