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Total number of records: 171

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Brotherton Collection171
English Literature23
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections20
Herbert Read Collection10
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natural history171
mineralogy38
geology7
botany5
indians of south america5
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botanical illustration4
common fallacies4
floras4
science4

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Amazon River Valley4
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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)47
Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888)10
Smellie, William9
Smellie, William (1740-1795)9
Evens, George Bramwell (1885-1943)8
Hudson, W H (1841-1922)8
William Henry Hudson8
White, Gilbert (1720-1793)5
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892)4
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)4

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Incipit Prohemium De proprietatibus rerum Fratris Bartholomei Anglici de ordine Fratrum Minorum

Bartholomaeus Anglicus; Reinhard, Marcus; Philippi, Nicolaus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930); Reider, Martin Joseph von (1793-1862)

Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimo octogesimo.die vero Iulij.xxix. [29 July 1480]

Signatures: a-i¹⁰ k-l⁸ L⁸ m-x¹⁰ y-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-F¹⁰ G-H⁸. Title from incipit on a2r. Imprint from colophon (the printers were active in Lyon). Colophon on H7v reads: Imp...

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De las propiedades de las cosas
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De las propiedades de las cosas

Bartholomaeus Anglicus; Burgos, Vincente de; Mayer, Henricus; Mancebo, Julián; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

a[n]no del señor de mil [e] quatro çientos [e] nouenta quatro a diez [e] ocho del mes de setie[m]bre. [18 September 1494]

Signatures: a⁶ 2a⁸ b-m⁸ n-o⁶ A-M⁸ aa⁶ bb-ee⁸ ff-gg⁶ hh-oo⁸ pp⁴. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on pp4v reads: Feneçe el libro delas propiedades delas cosas trasladado de lat...

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Pseudodoxia epidemica : or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, together with the Religio medici

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)

1672

The second section of the book, consisting of the Religio medici with Digby's Observations, has separate pagination and signatures, and a separate title-page reading: Religio medici. The seventh editi...

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Pseudodoxia epidemica : or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, together with the Religio medici

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)

1672

The second section of the book, consisting of the Religio medici with Digby's Observations, has separate pagination and signatures, and a separate title-page reading: Religio medici. The seventh editi...

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The book of a naturalist

Hudson, W H (1841-1922)

[1919]

First edition. Payne, Hudson, A37a.

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A hind in Richmond Park

Hudson, W H (1841-1922)

1922

Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and black.

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Idle days in Patagonia

Hudson, W H (1841-1922)

1923

Originally published in 1893 by Chapman & Hall.

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Idle days in Patagonia

Hudson, W H (1841-1922)

1893

First edition. "This edition consists of 1750 copies". Four pages of advertisements at the end.

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Nature in downland

Hudson, W H (1841-1922)

1900

First edition.

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A shepherd's life : impressions of the South Wiltshire downs

Hudson, W H (1841-1922); Gotch, Bernard C

1910

Publisher's advertisements on 31 p. at end.

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A shepherd's life : impressions of the South Wiltshire downs

Hudson, W H (1841-1922); Gotch, Bernard C

1910

Publisher's advertisements on 31 p. at end.

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