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- Robert Barclay - Theses Theologiae
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - English-Adventures by a Person of Honor
- Charles Cotton - Cotton's Angler (a continuation of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler)
- Gabriel de Foigney - The Adventures of James Sadeur and the Discovery of Australia
- Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
- Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, 5th edition
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