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A01750 Architectonice consolationis: or, The art of building comfort occasioned by the death of that religious gentlewoman, Iane Gilbert; to be studied: and with all a platforme of comfort to be raised up by her husband William Gilbert Doctor in Divinity. Gilbert, William, 1597?-1640. 1640 (1640) STC 11882; ESTC S103154 35,866 70

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