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Brotherton Collection2
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jews -- england -- history -- 19th century -- sources.4
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manuscripts, english -- 19th century -- texts.3
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manuscripts, hebrew -- 19th century -- texts.2
pinkasim -- texts.2

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4
J. Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London2
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme2
Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815)2
7th Earl of Huntingdon1
Ben Samuel, Jacob1
Bet Din Tsedeḳ London ṾEha-Medinah (Great Britain)1
Beth Din (London, England)1
Boyle, P1
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)1

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A random itinerary

Davidson, John (1857-1909)

1894

"This edition is limited to six hundred copies"--half-title verso. Title page in red.

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The fashionable court guide, or town visiting directory, for the year 1793, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected. With the addition of near one thousand measured hackney coach fares. Also the respectable hotels at the West-End of the town

Boyle, P; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1793]

Anonymous. By Patrick Boyle. Edited by Peter Boyle. Pp. iii-vi are the preface; [8]p. sequence is a street index; 166p. sequence is an alphabetical list of names, [2]p. sequence is errata; 103,[1]...

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Memoires et observations faites par un voyageur en Angleterre : sur ce qu'il a trouvé de plus remarquable tant à l'égard de la religion que de la politique, des moeurs, des curiositez naturelles & quantité de faits historiques : avec une description particuliere de ce qu'il y a de plus curieux dans Londres : le tout enrichi de figures

Misson, Henri; Misson, Maximilien (1650?-1722)

1698

Title in red & black. Added engraved t.p. Dedication signed: H. M. de V., i.e. Henri Misson, de Valbourg. Commonly attributed to his brother Maximilien. Cf. BM; Quérard; Barbier, A.A., D. N. B. ...

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London passed and passing : a pictorial record of destroyed & threatened buildings

Fletcher, Hanslip (1874-1955)

1908

Title in red and black. Title vignette.

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New experiments and observations touching cold, or, An experimental history of cold, begun : To which are added an examen of antiperistasis, and an examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold

Boyle, Robert (1627-1691); Merret, Christopher (1614-1695)

1665

Pagination: [60], 696, [4], 697-[804], [4], 805-845, [3], [8], 54 p. First edition. Title p. in red and black. "An account of freezing," by C. Merret: p. 1-54 at end. Errata: leaf d8. "Philo...

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[Letter, 4 March 1801, Joshua van Oven to Patrick Colquhoun, Esq., regarding the amelioration of the condition of the Jews in London (copy)].

Van Oven, Joshua

1801

Title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 242. As of 2020, MS Roth 242 missing. This description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 243 ...

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[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...

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[29 documents, letters, and other ephemera pertaining to Anglo-Jewish history (especially the newspaper The Voice of Jacob), 1659–1938 (bulk 1826–1868) (originals)].

1659–1938

Title supplied by cataloguer. Summary: The collection contains 29 separate items, the majority of which are foliated in pencil in upper right recto as if bound together; the items are primarily in ...

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[Maʿaseh bet din de-ḳ.ḳ. London]. [מעשה בית דין דק׳׳ק לונדון]. [Minutes and transactions of the London rabbinical court under the presidency of Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell].

Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Great Britain)

[1805-1836]

Hebrew title supplied from the now lost original binding of the manuscript (as quoted in Roth's notes bound with the item and by Hirsch Jakob Zimmels, "Legal Decisions and Responsa from the Court of R...

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Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the eighteenth century : including the charities, depravities, dresses, and amusements, of the citizens of London, during that period; with a review of the state of society in 1807 ; to which is added, a sketch of the domestic architecture and of the various improvements in the metropolis ; illustrated by forty-five engravings (Vol 1)

Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815); Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); J. Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme

1810

Supplementary to the author's "Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London from the Roman invasion to the year 1700."

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