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Total number of records: 94

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Books and printed items88
Coins4
Textiles2

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Brotherton Collection25
Coin Collection4
International Textile Collection2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Liddle Collection2
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1

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geography10
biography5
history5
voyages and travels5
18.07 english literature outside europe and the usa2
drama2
ethnology2
natural history2
physical geography2
sierra leonean drama (english)2

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America9
Asia9
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Europe3
Gambia River2
Great Britain2
Iran2
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Moreri, Louis (1643-1680)5
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-17064
Cory, Sir George (1862-1935)4
British and Foreign Bible Society3
Hofland, Mrs (1770-1844)3
Hutton, Catherine (1756-1846)3
Owen, John (1766-1822)3
Association For Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa2
Benjamin of Tudela2
Dunn, John2

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Considerations on the present peace, as far as it is relative to the colonies, and the African trade

MDCCLXIII [1763]

Includes table of statistics. Errata: p. 68. Anonymous.

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Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.1)

Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)

1817-1818

Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.

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Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.2)

Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)

1817-1818

Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.

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The geographical magazine; or, New system of geography : With beautiful and correct views, maps, and globes (v.2)

Mavor, William Fordyce (1758-1837)

MDCCXCIV. [i.e. 1793-1794]

Martyn is the pseudonym of William Fordyce Mavor (cf. DNB). Vol. 2 printed in 1793. Maps by J. Bayly, geographer. Title pages in red and black. v. 1. Asia. Africa -- v. 2. Europe. America.

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The scramble for Africa

Chamberlain, Muriel E

1974

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Anaphe silk combings
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Anaphe silk combings

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Card box with glass cover, containing samples of Anaphe wild silk combings. Anaphe is raw silk. This genus of silkworm, which produces this variety of silk, is found especially in Uganda and other par...

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Masaʻot shel Rabi Benyamīn = Itinerarium D. Beniaminis

Benjamin of Tudela; L'Empereur, Constantijn (1591-1648)

1633

Latin translation based on Friburg edition of 1583. Hebrew and Latin texts in parallel columns. Printer's mark: le Solitaire; headpiece; initials.

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