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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 691 — GILDING.

William Johnston translation

Lib. xxxiii. 3. The thicker gold-leaf was called, at that time, bractea Prænestina; the thinner, bractea quæstoria.

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