Volume 1
A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts.
- Date:
- 1771
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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