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.
Stock Code 103711
London, Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for S. Baker [and others], 1769
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An attractive copy of the standard county history of Cornwall, by the rector of Ludvagan, a man from an old Cornish family. Includes The Scilly Isles.
Second edition, revised, folio, xvi, 464 pp., 37 engravings including large folding map, most full page, 1 double-page, contemporary russia, rebacked, later endpapers, corners worn, a very good, clean copy.
Second edition, revised, folio, xvi, 464 pp., 37 engravings including large folding map, most full page, 1 double-page, contemporary russia, rebacked, later endpapers, corners worn, a very good, clean copy.
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