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Total number of records: 754

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	614
Archives	137
People and organisations	2
Art items	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	183
Ripon Cathedral	21
English Literature	10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	8
Incunabula	5
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	2
Cookery Collection	1
Leeds Russian Archive	1
University Art Collection	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
geography	111
natural history	42
geography, ancient	39
world history	31
voyages and travels	29
zoology	22
history	20
physical geography	18
manners and customs	17
voyages around the world	17

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	33
Italy	20
England	18
America	15
France	14
Turkey	13
Iran	11
Spain	11
Africa	10
India	10

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Sinclair, Sir John (1754-1835)	21
Green, John	17
Green, John (1745-)	17
Prevost	17
Prevost Abbe (1697-1763)	17
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)	16
Lambert, Claude-Francois (1705-1765)	15
Gilpin, William (1724-1804)	14
Moreri, Louis (1643-1680)	13
Cook, James (1728-1779)	12

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1400	114
From 1500	26
From 1600	93
From 1700	520

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1499	112
Up to 1599	26
Up to 1699	93
Up to 1799	523

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Géographie universelle

Busching, Anton Friedrich (1724-1793)

1772

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The Indigo Manufactory: Bookplate for Middleton's Complete System of Geography

unidentified, unknown

1779

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Atlas universel, pour la géographie de Guthrie

Guthrie, William (1708-1770); Guthrie, William (1708-1770)

An VII [i.e. 1799]

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A treatise of antient and present geography : together with a sett of maps, both of antient and present geography, design'd for the use of young students in the universities

Wells, Edward (1667-1727)

1706

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A compleat system of general geography : explaining the nature and properties of the earth (v.1)

Varenius, Bernhardus (1622-1650); Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Jurin, James (1684-1750); Dugdale, Mr; Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)

1736

Subtitle: It's figure, magnitude, motions, situation, contents, and division into land and water, mountains, woods, desarts, lakes, rivers, &c. With particular accounts of the different appearances of...

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A compleat system of general geography : explaining the nature and properties of the earth (v.2)

Varenius, Bernhardus (1622-1650); Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Jurin, James (1684-1750); Dugdale, Mr; Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)

1736

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A system of geography : or, A dissertation on the creation and various phænomena of the terraqueous globe

Randall, Joseph

MDCCXLIV [1744]

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The history of astronomy, with its application to geography, history, and chronology; occasionally exemplified by the globes

Costard, George (1710-1782)

1767

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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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