The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Antients, Under the Following Heads: Agriculture, Commerce, Architecture and Architects, Sculpture and Sculptures, Painting and Painters, Musick and Musicians, the Art Military, Volume 3J.and F. Rivington, 1768 |
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