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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, and the British isles, exemplified and proved by Monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, LL. D. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall. The Second Edition, revised, with several additions, by the author; to which is added a Map of Cornwall, and two new plates. London, Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York Street; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate, St. Martin s; and Benjamin White, at Horace s Head, in Fleet Street, MDCCLXIX. [1769] Paginates: XVI, 464 p. Collates [a]2, b-d2, B-6B2 Complete. The Second (Preferred) edition. A tall copy. With large folding map of Cornwall. 37 plates; two maps (one double page), twenty-five plates (one double page) and ten vignettes in the text. 750 copies printed. Bound in contemporary calf, re-backed to style. Binding and re-back near fine. Corners renewed. Original endpapers. Internally with occasional minor foxing, but generally a clean copy. The map with a very small split in an internal fold. The map with generous borders. The volume measures 37.5 x 24 x 5 cm. Each leaf measures 364 x 239 mm. Seller Inventory # ABE-1686075809561
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Title: Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of ...
Publisher: London, Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York Street; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate, St. Martin s; and Benjamin White, at Horace s Head, in Fleet Street, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Publication Date: 1769
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 2nd Edition
