Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ... adorned with proper sculptures, curiously engraven on more than fifty copper plates .. (1735)
Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics · London, C. Hitch and C. Davis [etc.] · leaf 256
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