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A29860 Hydriotaphia, urn-burial, or, A discours of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk together with the Garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial lozenge, or network of plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered : with sundry observations / by Thomas Browne. Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. 1669 (1669) Wing B5155; ESTC R35415 73,609 80

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