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Total number of records: 368

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Books and printed items361
Indexes7

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Brotherton Collection150
Quaker Collection36
English Literature20
Cookery Collection8
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
Ripon Cathedral7
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4

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churches, quaker7
society of friends6
botany5
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church and state4
quaker church buildings4
botany, medical3
casuistry3
conscience3
detention of persons3

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Ireland3
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Great Britain. Army45
Burrough, Edward (1634-1662)43
Great Britain. Parliament40
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)39
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax35
Great Britain28
Charles I, King of England, 1600-164927
Society of Friends26
R. F (1666)22
Howgill, Francis (1618-1669)18

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Up to 1699349

Title: On generall luxury

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: [Latin]; Lucan

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Contents: Epigram on gluttony as the cause of usury, leading in turn to extortion and war

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Title: Generall selfe-partiality

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Contents: Epigram asserting that each person is possessed of more than enough wit or intelligence to make him or her happy

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Architecture generale de Vitruve

Vitruvius Pollio; Perrault, Claude (1613-1688)

1681

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The herball or generall historie of plantes

Gerard, John (1545-1612)

1597

p. 954 is numbered 950, and reads 'fist' for first in the twelth line from the bottom.

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The herball or generall historie of plantes

Gerard, John (1545-1612)

1597

p. 954 is numbered 950, and reads 'fist' for first in the twelth line from the bottom.

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The herball or generall historie of plantes (Up to p.828)

Gerard, John (1545-1612); Johnson, Thomas (1644)

1636

The text is a page for page reprint of the 1633 edition. Engraved title page.

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The herball or generall historie of plantes (p.829 to end)

Gerard, John (1545-1612); Johnson, Thomas (1644)

1636

The text is a page for page reprint of the 1633 edition. Engraved title page.

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Title: A short description of beauty in generall

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167-?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: On general beauty as a constellation of beautiful parts; epigram from Plotinus at end; with some alternative wording given

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The herball or generall historie of plantes

Gerard, John (1545-1612)

1597

p. 954 is numbered 950, and reads 'fist' for first in the twelth line from the bottom.

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The annales, or, Generall chronicle of England
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The annales, or, Generall chronicle of England

Stow, John (1525?-1605); Howes, Edmund (fl. 1607-1631)

1615

Engraved title-page, reading: Londini, Impensis Thomae Adams, 1615; Colophon: Imprinted in London... by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Adams, anno 1615. Title within architectural woodcut border. "An ap...

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The passions of the minde in generall : In six bookes

Wright, Thomas (1651)

1630

Pagination irregular.

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A panegyrick to his excellency, the Lord Generall Monck

D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668)

1659

Verse - "OUr fiery Sects scorn'd your Triumphant night,".

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