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Brotherton Collection42
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Alembert, Jean Le Rond D' (1717-1783)5
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Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)5
Henry Sotheran Ltd.5
Panckoucke, Charles Joseph (1736-1798)5
Barbe-Marbois, Francois Marquis De (1745-1837)4
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)4
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Marquise De (1721-1764)4
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise De, 1721-17644

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Archive Print piece

As You Like It. I. ii. 65 - I. ii. 207

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (187)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 141-61

Issuer/creator: Antoninus Pius (138-61)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Judaica File

[Igron / me-et Ḥizḳiyah Shelomoh Ḳutseri]. [אגרון / מאת חזקיה שלמה קוצירי]. [Model letter book of Hezekiah (=Cesare) Solomon Cuzzeri].

[17th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 207. Variant titles: Mikhtavim. מכתבים. Igr...

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A collection of the best pieces in prose and verse against the naturalization of the Jews

Britannicus; Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

1753

Excerpts mostly from the London Evening Post and the Craftsman; includes a piece by Britannicus.

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Archive Collection

GRANT

24 Apr 1513

1. Thomas Rokley, esquire 2. John Denton and Thomas Denton Property: all messuages, lands and tenements in Darton in the tenure of Ralph Seneyour.

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Archive Collection

Title: Upon K--g W---ms two first campagnes

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 1692 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Satire on William III's lack of success in the war against France in 1691

and 1692. A variant of "The author sure must take great pains" printed in

"Poems on affairs of state", III, 1704, p.342.

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William Rogers's Christian Quaker, manifested to be antichristian

Lawrence, Thomas Quaker

1681

Indexed in: Wing L689A; Smith II, 87.

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A testimony for the Lord and his truth, given forth by the women Friends, at their Yearly Meeting at York being a tender salutation of love, to their friends and sisters, in their several Monthly Meetings, in this country, and elsewhere

Whitton, Catharine; Society of Friends. Yorkshire Women's Yearly Meeting

[between 1700 and 1799]

Subscribed on p.4 on behalf of the meeting by Catharine Whitton and 7 others. Original date of 1688 misprinted as 1668. Caption title.

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Hypocrisie detected, or, A brief answer to Thomas Crisp's book

Lawrence, Thomas Quaker

1681

A reply to Crisp's "Babel's builders unmasking themselves".

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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from James Sutherland, Edinburgh

15 May 1700

Regarding duplicate coins, and autographs, barnacles

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