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Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. : Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity in Britain, ... exemplified and proved by monuments now extant in Cornwall ... with a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1769.
Call number: 217322
Creator: Borlase, William (1695-1772)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: folio
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