The preservation of antiquities

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Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
(Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia , cap. v.)

THE PRESERVATION OF ANTIQUITIES
A HANDBOOK FOR CURATORS
TRANSLATED, BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHORITIES OF THE ROYAL MUSEUMS, FROM THE GERMAN OF Dr FRIEDRICH RATHGEN Director of the Laboratory of the Royal Museums, Berlin BY GEORGE A. AUDEN, M.A., M.D. (Cantab.) AND HAROLD A. AUDEN, M.Sc. (Vict.), D.Sc. (Tübingen)
CAMBRIDGE: at the University Press 1905

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