Launceston interest. A typescript (Latin) with notes, and on...

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Launceston interest. A typescript (Latin) with notes, and one other work. Claude H. Peter. 'Launceston Sive Burgi De Dunhevet , In Agro Cornubico, Antiquitates, Initia, Incrementa & Privilegia Et Monastery Et Burgi De Newport Et Ecclesiarum Et Pagorum Circumjacentium,' typescript with manuscript notes, additionally a letter tipped in from Walter Peacock at Buckingham Gate dated 1909, 'To Otho B. Peter, Launceston Scientific & Historical Society, Launceston', Claude H. Peter states in this typescript that the original of this manuscript history is in the Huntsonian Collection of the Library of the University of Glasgow. Furthermore the original manuscript was sent to him by the University authorities on the 26th February 1924 and found the copy written in this book to be correct, 79 pages, hardback, a very good copy. Arthur Bate Venning. 'The Book of Launceston. A Portrait of the Town,' first edition, this is a signed limited edition, number 194, the subscribers list is at the back, a very good copyv Barracuda Books, Chesham, 1976.

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