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Total number of records: 59

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Brotherton Collection59
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections59

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romanies13
romani poetry5
english poetry3
begging1
ethnology1
flamenco music1
folk music1
german language1
jats1
musical fiction1

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Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)5
Borrow, George Henry4
Grellmann, H M G (1756-1804)3
Sampson, John (1862-1931)3
De Peyster, J Watts (1821-1907)2
Fleischmann, Gyula2
Leland, Charles Godfrey2
Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)2
Palmer, Edward Henry2
Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882)2

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The story of Yvashka with the bear's ear : Translated from the Russian

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

1913

"Printed for private circulation". Imprint from colophon.

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Targum. Or Metrical translations from thirty languages and dialects

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

1835

First edition (limited to 100 copies).

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English-gipsy songs : In Rommany, with metrical English translations

Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903); Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882); Tuckey, Janet

1875

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English-gipsy songs : In Rommany, with metrical English translations

Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903); Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882); Tuckey, Janet

1875

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Gypsies : Information translated and gathered from various sources

De Peyster, J Watts (1821-1907)

1885

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Deep song : adventures with Gypsy songs and singers in Andalusia and other lands, with original translations

Brown, Irving Henry (1888-1940)

1929

Contains music. Illustrations on endpapers.

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Gypsies : some curious investigations, collected, translated, or reprinted from various sources, concerning this peculiar race

De Peyster, J Watts (1821-1907)

1887

"This edition is limited to 150 copies."

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The fifth volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy... Written originally in Arabick. Translated into Italian, and from thence into English ... [etc.]

Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693)

[1966]

Xerox copy of title-page and pp. 54-6, part of letters 14 and 15, touching on gypsies.

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Hoffmann (Frantz), [Zigeuner-Friedel.] "Fred the Gypsy."

1874

Translation of text into English by Charles Watson. Translator’s autograph (handwritten) manuscript. Includes a presentation letter to the translator’s nephews and nieces on the last page.Carlsr...

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Welsh poems and ballads

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881); Rhys, Ernest (1859-1946)

1915

Translated by Borrow.

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Gypsy folk tales

Vořiškovà, Marie; Layton, Jean

1966

Translated by Jean Layton.

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Omar Khayyam bish ta dui gilia

Omar Khayyám (1048-1131); Sampson, John (1862-1931); John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961)

1902

22 quatrains translated into Welsh Romani.

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