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A18047 The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent. Linche, Richard.; Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Imagini de i dei de gli antichi. 1599 (1599) STC 4691; ESTC S107896 106,455 205

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