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Total number of records: 1063

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Brotherton Collection256
Quaker Collection36
English Literature21
Cookery Collection12
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse10
Ripon Cathedral7
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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natural history104
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world history23
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Great Britain112
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Voltaire (1694-1778)209
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat Marquis De (1743-1794)164
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron De (1732-1799)162
Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827)162
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)101
Beisson, Francois-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)92
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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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Elémens d'histoire générale

Millot, C F X (1726-1785)

1778

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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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Anatomie generale des visceres

Gautier D'Agoty, Jacques (1717-1785)

[1752]

Caption title. Dissections and explanations partly by Antoine Mertrud.

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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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