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Books and printed items76
Archives19
Coins4
Indexes2

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Brotherton Collection38
English Literature15
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8
Quaker Collection5
Coin Collection4
Ripon Cathedral3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Incunabula2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2
Business Archives1

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aesthetics13
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draperies8
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seating (furniture)8
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.2
turning (lathe work)2
azharot -- texts.1

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Italy1
Palestine1
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Ruskin, John (1819-1900)13
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)10
Best, W T (1826-1897)9
Best, W. T9
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8
Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941)8
Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889)8
Nerva (96-8)4
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)3

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Gift with Warranty

5 June 1376

1. William chaplain of the Blessed Mary of Ledes and William de Berby chaplain 2. Thomas Osmund of Osmundthorpe Premises in Ledes and Osmundthorpe

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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Samuel Midgley

9 Sep 1707

Regarding his father Samuel and brother Robert.

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Letters from Forsyth Brothers

1874-1875

The letters are signed H. Ison.

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Small accounts and vouchers

1796-1816

Including payments for foodstuffs, etc; receipts of J. Richardson for sums received from Collins, 1812-1814

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Voyage aux sources du Nil (v.7-8)

Bruce, James (1730-1794)

an VII [1798-9]

Vol.6: p.62 wrongly numbered 2; vol.8: p.258 wrongly numbered 158.

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A discovery of the priests and professors, and of their nakedness and shame which is coming upon them, from their high profession, to fall as mire in the streets

Simpson, William (1627?-1671)

1660

Caption title. "Going naked, a sign": p. 7-8. Signed at end: William Simpson.

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Small accounts and vouchers

1791-1795

Including payments for groceries, doctor's supplies, snuff from Fribourg and Treyer [1793], repairing clothes, china dishes from Josiah Wedgwood [1793]

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Auto-biographical narrations of the convincement and other religious experience of Samuel Crisp, Elizabeth Webb, Evan Bevan, Margaret Lucas, and Frederick Smith

Chalk, Thomas (1787-1869)

1848

Signatures: [A]p4s, B-Sp8s. Verso of title page and p. [2], [4], second sequence, [48], [82], [84], [96], [98], [170] and [172] are blank. Works published by Charles Gilpin: p. [269]-[272]. Edit...

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An answer to a book, entituled, Reason and authority, or, The motives of a late Protestant's reconciliation to the Catholick Church : together with a brief account of Augustine the monk and conversion of the English : in a letter to a friend

Bainbrigg, Thomas (1636-1703)

1687

Attributed to Thomas Bainbrigg by Wing and DNB. Publisher's advertisement on p. 96. This pamphlet critizes a pamphlet written by Joshua Basset which attacked John Tillotson's Discourse against tra...

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Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis De arte poëtica lib. III, De bombyce ad Isabellam Estensem Marchionissam lib. II, De ludo scacchorum lib. I, Hymni cum nonnullis aliis, Bucolica, Epistola ad Joan. Matthaeum Gybertum

Vida, Marco Girolamo (1485-1566)

1536

Entirely in verse. Gryphius published in the same year the author's Christiados libri sex, which together with the works printed in this volume represents the author's complete literary output to th...

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