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Select historical costumes (1868)

Hinton, Henry L · New York : Wynkoop & Sherwood · leaf 156

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as distinguished most of theAnglo-Saxon warriors long before the epochin question. The form of his buckler, aswell as that of his large sword, belongs tothe time and the reign above mentioned.The purse which he carries is also an ev-idence of the antiquity of this costume.The shell is a kind of… … CMJNG VLNETIAN GLNTl.FIMAN l.i I ■ X IS cr I ITU R-i A YOUNG VENETIAN OF RANK. LATTEK PART OF THE EOURTEENTH OENTUET. T is supposed thatthe origin and eventhe liberty of thefamous republic of Venicedate back beyond the MiddleAges, and the Venetians boastof never having at any period^ been subject…

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