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Total number of records: 407

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Brotherton Collection123
Quaker Collection70
Ripon Cathedral61
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections29
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society7
Cookery Collection2
Herbert Read Collection2

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geology14
socialism12
paleontology7
oxford movement4
art3
choruses, sacred (mixed voices, 4 parts) with organ3
crustacea, fossil3
romanies3
capitalism2
crabs, fossil2

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PlaceCount
Iceland7
Great Britain2
London (England)2
Belgium1
Edinburgh (Scotland)1
France1
India1
Italy1
Leeds (England)1
Louvain (Belgium)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Thorvaldur Thoroddsen (1855-1921)34
Pickles, William Norman (1885-1969)26
Carpenter, J E (1813-1885)25
Carpenter, J. E25
Glover, Stephen (1813-1870)18
Hyndman, H M (1842-1921)15
Benedict, Sir Julius (1804-1885)10
Society of Friends10
Woodward, Henry (1832-1921)10
Benedict, Julius8

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From 1800326
From 190080

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Up to 1899288
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Skýrsla til Alþingis 1885

Þorvaldur Thoroddsen (1855-1921)

1885

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[Leeds concert programmes, 1885 - 1888]

[1877-1888]

14 concert programmes, including Leeds classical chamber concerts, Assembly Rooms, 1879-80, Leeds popular concerts, Coloseum, 1885-88, and concerts held at the Albert Hall, Town Hall, Victoria Hall, e...

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The pleasures of England : lectures given in Oxford

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

[1885]

Contents: The pleasures of learning.--Bertha to Osburga.--The pleasures of faith; Alfred to the Confessor.--The pleasures of deed: Alfred to Cœur de Lion.

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"A joy for ever" : (and its price in the market); being the substance (with additions) of two lectures on the political economy of art, delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th 1857

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

[1885]

Contents: lecture 1. The discovery and application of art.--lecture II. The accumulation and distribution of art.-- Addenda. --Supplementary additional papers: Education in art. Art school notes. Soci...

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The ethics of the dust : ten lectures to little housewives on the elements of crystallisation

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

[1885]

Contents: The valley of diamonds.--The pyramid builders.--The crystal life.--The crystal orders.--Crystal virtues.--Crystal quarrels.--Home virtues.--Crystal caprice.--Crystal sorrows.--The crystal re...

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Val d'Arno : ten lectures on the Tuscan art directly antecedent to the Florentine year of victories, given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1873

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

[1885]

Contents: Nicholas the Pisan.--John the Pisan.--Shield and apron.--Parted per pale.--Pax vobiscum.--Marble couchant.--Marble rampant.--Franchise.--The Tyrrhene sea.--Fleur de lys.

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ha-Shulamit : beʼur shalem ʻal sefer Shir ha-shirim

Solomon, Moses Solomon Zalman

634, 1874

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Ḥokhmat Shelomoh :... ben Daṿid melekh Yiśraʼel

Wessely, Naphtali Herz (1725-1805)

1885

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On "flightless birds," commonly called "wingless birds," fossil and recent : and a few words on birds as a class

Woodward, Henry (1832-1921)

[1886?]

"Reprinted from "Proceedings of the Geologists' Association," vol. IX, no.5".

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