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A critical essay concerning marriage. : Shewing, I. The preference of marriage to a single life. ... To which is added, an historical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and our Saxon ancestors, ... By a gentleman

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1724.
Call number: 359589
Creator: Salmon, Thomas (1679-1767)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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