The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Present Day |
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INTRODUCTION . The Author having commenced his search in the Public Record Office , found himself rewarded by a mass of evidences from which he has given verbatim transcripts of a most valuable character of what he may justly term ...
INTRODUCTION . The Author having commenced his search in the Public Record Office , found himself rewarded by a mass of evidences from which he has given verbatim transcripts of a most valuable character of what he may justly term ...
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| Title | The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Present Day |
| Author | George Grant Francis |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Sotheran & Company, 1881 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 May 2006 |
| Length | 193 pages |
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