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Total number of records: 97

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection11
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Cookery Collection2
Incunabula1
Leeds Russian Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
botany97
natural history21
science10
geology8
plants, medicinal3
plants, toxic3
agriculture2
flowers in art2
gardening2
mountaineering2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain3
Middle East3
Altai Mountains2
Siberia (Russia)2
Alps1
Cautley (England)1
Leiden (Netherlands)1
St. Anne'S-On-The-Sea (England)1
Tebay (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Smith, Sir James Edward (1759-1828)18
Sowerby, James (1757-1822)18
Ray, John (1627-1705)11
Gibelin, Jacques (1744-1828)9
Royal Society (Great Britain)9
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton De (1656-1708)9
Soulavie, Jean-Louis Giraud (1752-1813)7
Camel, Georg Joseph (1661-1706)6
Withering, William (1741-1799)6
Carolus Linnaeus5

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Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive, Itinera Alpina tria : in quibus incolæ, animalia, plantæ, montium altitudines barometricæ, cœli & soli temperies, aquæ medicatæ, mineralia, metalla, lapides figurati, aliaque fossilia : & quicquid insuper in natura, artibus, & antiquitate, per Alpes Helveticas & Rhæticas, rarum sit, & notatu dignum, exponitur, & iconibus illustratur

Scheuchzer, Johann Jacob (1672-1733); Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)

1708

"Imprimatur, Is. Newton, P.R.S." Caption-titles: Iter Alpinum primum [-tertium]. The general title-leaf and the 3 part-title leaves are outside the system of signatures. Each part has added t.p....

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Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee and of the Conference of Delegates held in Cardiff

Sheppard, Thomas (1876-1945); Sheppard, Thomas (1876-1945); British Association for the Advancement of Science. Corresponding Societies Committtee; British Association for the Advancement of Science. Conference of Delegates of the Corresponding Societies

1920

Includes the text of an address by T. Sheppard on "The evolution of topographical and geological maps"; and "List of papers bearing upon the zoology, botany, and prehistoric archaeology of the British...

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Descriptive and physiological botany

Henslow, J S (1796-1861)

1836

Added t.p., engr.: The principles of descriptive & physiological botany.

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Caroli Linnaei... Systema naturae : per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (v.1)

Linné, Carl von (1707-1778)

1758-59

Paged continuously. "4me édition originale...de même que les éditions 2 et 6."--Hulth. Le t. 3, traitant des Mineralia, ne parut pas. Le ms. existe pourtant: il est conservé à la Linnean Soci...

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Plants from the county of Cheshire in his collection, 1910-14

Waterfall, Charles

[1914]

Pp. [1] and 10 printed on inside of covers.

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Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium : in qua exhibentur quotquot hactenus inventæ sunt, quæ vel sponte proveniunt, vel in agris seruntur;... Adjiciuntur in gratiam tyronum, Index Anglico-latinus ... [etc.]

Ray, John (1627-1705)

Ann. Dom. 1660

Issue with rule above imprint printed in black and the 'a' of "agris" aligned below the 'n' of "sponte" in the title. This t.p. appears to be leaf *2. Another issue exists with the t.p. as leaf *1 w...

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Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium : in qua exhibentur quotquot hactenus inventæ sunt, quæ vel sponte proveniunt, vel in agris seruntur;... Adjiciuntur in gratiam tyronum, Index Anglico-latinus ... [etc.]

Ray, John (1627-1705)

Ann. Dom. 1660

Issue with rule above imprint printed in black and the 'a' of "agris" aligned below the 'n' of "sponte" in the title. This t.p. appears to be leaf *2. Another issue exists with the t.p. as leaf *1 w...

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