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Total number of records: 275

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	203
Archives	72

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	90
Cookery Collection	9
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	7
Leeds Russian Archive	6
English Literature	4
Ripon Cathedral	4
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History	3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	2
Quaker Collection	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
atlases, british	76
portraits, british	67
letters	63
banks and banking (british)	42
british	24
commerce	22
london (england)	19
industries	17
painting, british	14
autographs	13

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
England	101
Wales	43
Great Britain	22
London (England)	10
British Isles	8
France	6
India	5
Birmingham (England)	4
Burma	4
England and Wales	3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	48
Baines, Edward (1774-1848)	16
Cary, John (1754-1835)	16
Denys, Sir George (1788-1857)	16
Parson, William	16
Wood, James	16
J. Pigot & Co	11
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)	11
Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784)	9
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)	9

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	1
From 1600	3
From 1700	49
From 1800	222

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	2
Up to 1799	39
Up to 1899	234

Archive Sub-collection

MIRRIELEES Family

1877, 1890

Photocopies of: Obituary of Archibald Mirrielees in "Bible Society Monthly Reporter", vol X, no 23, 2 April 1877 /1/; letter (annotated by Harvey Pitcher) from Muir & Mirrielees to Aylmer Maude, Mosco...

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Memorials of the empire of Japon : in the XVI and XVII centuries

Rundall, Thomas; Adams, William (1564-1620)

1850

Contents: A description of the empire in the 16th century. From... Harleian mss. 6249 -- Letters of William Adams,1611 to 1617 -- Notes -- Summary of a narrative by His Excellancy Don Rodrigo de Viver...

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