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Books and printed items	27
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Brotherton Collection	11
English Literature	4
Cookery Collection	1
Herbert Read Collection	1
Quaker Collection	1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

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plague	24
great plague, london, england, 1664-1666	2
black death	1
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glass painting and staining	1
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jewish poetry, italian -- texts.	1
jewish religious poetry, hebrew -- italy -- texts.	1
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judaism -- liturgy -- texts.	1

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People and organisations	Count
Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)	3
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754	2
Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)	2
Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882)	1
Bianchelli, Mengo	1
Bianchelli, Mengo (1440-)	1
Brayley, E W (1773-1854)	1
Brayley, E. W	1
Browne, Hablot Knight (1815-1882)	1
Browne, Joseph (1721-)	1

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From 1900	5

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Up to 1699	4
Up to 1799	6
Up to 1899	11
Up to 1999	6

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The plague problem in South Africa : historical, bacteriological and entomological studies

Mitchell, James Alexander; Pirie, J H Harvey (1878-); Ingram, Alexander (1868-)

[1927]

"References" at end of each chapter except one.

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A collection of very valuable and scarce pieces relating to the last plague in the year 1665 : viz. I. Orders drawn up and published by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, to prevent the spreading of the infection, II. An account of the first rise, progress, symptoms and cure of the plague, being the substance of a letter from Doctor Hodges to a person of quality, III. Necessary directions for the prevention and cure of the plague, with divers remedies of small charge, by the College of Physicians, IV. Reflections on the weekly bills of mortality, so far as they relate to all the plagues which have happened in London from the year 1592, to the great plague in 1665, and some other particular diseases : with a preface shewing the usefulness of this collection, some errors of Dr. Mead, and his misrepresentations of Dr. Hodges and some authors : to which is added, An account of the plague at Naples, in 1656, of which there died in one day, 20000 persons, with the symptoms that appeared upon dissection, and the approved method of cure

1721

Errors in numbering: page numbers 49-56 repeated.

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A journal of the plague year : or, Memorials of the great pestilence in London, in 1665

Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731); Brayley, E W (1773-1854)

1835

Running title: Memoirs of the plague. Half-title: A journal of the plague year: being some observations or memorials, of the most remarkable occurences, as well public as private, which happened in ...

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