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A09202 Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized, and published, by Henry Peacham, Mr. of Artes. Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? 1612 (1612) STC 19511; ESTC S114357 68,103 232

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