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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 424

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fifty, sixty, or sixty-five inches in breadth : they areexpanded in the hand. The process for polishingthem is performed by a machine ; ^ they are thentransported to Madrid, for the purpose of beingmetallised It is not uncommon to see tables ofbronze, on which mirrors are extended, a hundredand… … GLASS in length by eighty-five in breadth, and weighsfour hundred and five arrobas. The smallestmeasures a hundred and twenty inches in length,and seventy-five in breadth, and weighs threehundred and eighty arrobas! The best account of any is contained in theNouveau Voyage en Espagne (1789) of…

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