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A pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts, misteries, laws, customs and manners in the whole world : together with many other rarities and remarkable things rarely known, and never before made publick : to which is added, several curious inventions, peculierly attributed to England & English-men, the whole work alphabetically digested and very helpful to the readers of history.

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Main Author:	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555
Other Authors:	Langley, Thomas, d. 1581
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for John Harris ..., 1686.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Inventors > Early works to 1800. Inventions > Early works to 1800.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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