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Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, customs, And Remains of the Most Remote Antiquity, In Britain, and the British Isles: Exemplify’d and prov’d by Monuments now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, Faithfully drawn on the Spot, and Engrav’d according to their Scales annex’d. With A Summary Of The Religious, Civil, and Military State of Cornwall before the Norman Conquest; Illustrated by the Plans and Elevations of several Ancient Castles, An Eastern View of the Monastery and Site of St. Michael’s Mount: and a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan. |
| Description: |
Printed by W. Jackson, Oxford. 1754. First Edition, folio, xvi,413,[1]pp., with list of subscribers, one engraved map (partly coloured), 23 engraved plates (one folding), 8 engravings within the text, late nineteenth-century half polished calf, marbled sides, morocco label to spine, a nice copy. |
