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A29815 Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching to which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest and most exact grounds and rules of symetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ... Browne, Alexander, fl. 1660-1677. 1669 (1669) Wing B5097; ESTC R19752 72,506 182

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