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A16401 The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.; Boke of Saint Albans Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. 1595 (1595) STC 3314; ESTC S103621 69,877 187

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