Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum / Auctore Willielmo Baxter. Accedunt ... Edvardi Luidii ... de fluviorum, montium, urbium, etc. in Britanniâ nominibus, adversaria posthuma.

  • Baxter, William, 1650-1723.
Date:
1719
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