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THE PRESERVATION
OF ANTIQUITIES
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)
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at the University Press
1905
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