Matrimonial ceremonies displayed : wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprising practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and peoples in the world, now used in the celebration and consumption of matrimony / collected from the papers of a rambling bachelor ; with a variety of remarks by him, serious and humorous ; to which is added the comical adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven wives, with the character of each, a genuine story.
1886
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Matrimonial ceremonies displayed : wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprising practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and peoples in the world, now used in the celebration and consumption of matrimony / collected from the papers of a rambling bachelor ; with a variety of remarks by him, serious and humorous ; to which is added the comical adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven wives, with the character of each, a genuine story.
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Gaya, Louis de.
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London : H. Serjeant, [1886]
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English
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1 online resource ([5]-103, [1] p.).
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Translated into English by Thomas Brown and published, 1704, under the title: Marriage ceremonies, as now used in all parts of the world.
"Also an epigram on matrimony, in Latin and English; and an alphabetical index."
"Published for the information and entertainment of the ladies and pretty girls of Great Britain, not forgetting those of Dublin and Tipperary."
Reproduction of the original from the New York Public Library.
"Also an epigram on matrimony, in Latin and English; and an alphabetical index."
"Published for the information and entertainment of the ladies and pretty girls of Great Britain, not forgetting those of Dublin and Tipperary."
Reproduction of the original from the New York Public Library.
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Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks.
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