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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture209
Brotherton Collection62
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Cookery Collection7
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7
Herbert Read Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
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Liddle Collection1

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)120
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)29
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Garnett, Thomas (1766-1802)8
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A catalogue of the mineral collections in the Museum of Practical Geology : with introductory and explanatory remarks

Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson (1817-1890); Reeks, Trenham; Rudler, Frederick William (1840-); Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain)

1864

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The minerals of New South Wales

Liversidge, Archibald (1847-1927)

[1882]

Corrected reprint of a paper published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 1874, entitled 'Mineral products of New South Wales'.

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The minerals of New South Wales

Liversidge, Archibald (1847-1927)

[1874]

Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 9 December, 1874.

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An enquiry into the contents, virtues, and uses, of the Scarborough spaw-waters : with the method of examining any other mineral-water

Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)

1734

Errata: p. viii. Format from ESTC; wove paper. Author's and others' advertisements: p. [167-168]. Also issued as part 2 of Friedrich Hoffman's "New experiments and observations upon mineral wate...

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An enquiry into the contents, virtues, and uses, of the Scarborough spaw-waters : with the method of examining any other mineral-water

Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)

1734

Errata: p. viii. Format from ESTC; wove paper. Author's and others' advertisements: p. [167-168]. Also issued as part 2 of Friedrich Hoffman's "New experiments and observations upon mineral wate...

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