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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 44

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